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Alisa Lepselter was born in 1963. She is an editor, known for Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Midnight in Paris (2011).- Editor
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George Tomasini has been something of an unsung hero in the editing business. He was for several years under contract to Paramount, before joining Alfred Hitchcock to collaborate on nine projects, beginning with Rear Window (1954). This partnership was to span a ten-year period, ending in Tomasini's premature death from a massive heart attack at the age of 55. Hitch's subsequent films never again enjoyed the same level of artistic success. While Tomasini may not have had the same creative freedom in selecting his own shots as other editors, he nonetheless became highly intuitive about the director's wishes. Tomasini was a master of time and space in editing to heighten suspense and determine mood. Much of Hitch's best films were strongly driven by editing, in particular Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963) (another classic, the sub-Hitchcockian thriller Cape Fear (1962) also falls into this category, though directed by J. Lee Thompson).
Tall and handsome, Tomasini was married to glamorous Hollywood star Mary Brian.- Editor
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Ray Lovejoy was born on 18 February 1939. He was an editor and director, known for Aliens (1986), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Krull (1983). He died on 19 October 2001 in London, England, UK.- Editor
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Anthony Harvey was born on 3 June 1930 in London, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for The Lion in Winter (1968), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Dutchman (1966). He died on 23 November 2017 in Southampton, New York, USA.- Editor
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Dulal Dutta was born in 1925 in Chandernagor, French India. He was an editor, known for Pather Panchali (1955), The Zoo (1967) and The World of Apu (1959). He died on 17 August 2010 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.- Editor
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Lennart Wallén was born on 15 October 1914. He was an editor and assistant director, known for The Seventh Seal (1957), Lata Lena och blåögda Per (1947) and Det glada kalaset (1946). He died on 25 May 1967 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Editor
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Sylvia Ingemarsson was born on 10 May 1949 in Väse, Värmlands län, Sweden. She is an editor, known for Fanny and Alexander (1982), Autumn Sonata (1978) and Man on the Roof (1976).- Editor
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Folmar Blangsted was born on 6 October 1904 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an editor and director, known for Summer of '42 (1971), Rio Bravo (1959) and A Star Is Born (1954). He was married to Else Blangsted. He died on 11 August 1982 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Nino Baragli was born on 1 October 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an editor, known for Django (1966), Mediterraneo (1991) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He died on 29 May 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Writer
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After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948) was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).- Editor
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Hossein Zandbaf is known for White Death (1984), The Attack on H3 (1995) and The Devil's Eye (1994).- Editor
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Tambet Tasuja was born on 25 September 1978 in Rakvere, Estonia. He is an editor and actor, known for Mother (2016), The Eternal Road (2017) and Take It or Leave It (2018).- Editor
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Craig McKay is known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993) and Reds (1981). He is married to Patricia Knack McKay. They have one child.- Editor
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Jim Helton is known for Blue Valentine (2010), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) and The Light Between Oceans (2016).- Editor
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Ron Patane is known for A Most Violent Year (2014), Blue Valentine (2010) and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012).- Editor
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Hervé Schneid was born in France. He is an editor, known for Amélie (2001), Delicatessen (1991) and A Very Long Engagement (2004).- Editorial Department
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John Rushton was born in February 1941 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an editor, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Night After Night After Night (1969) and Wuthering Heights (1970).- Editor
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Reginald Mills was born on 15 July 1912 in London, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), The Red Shoes (1948) and Black Narcissus (1947). He died in July 1990 in London, England, UK.- Editor
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Hayedeh Safiyari ( born 1960, Gorgan, Iran) is an Iranian film editor and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She graduated in Art Cinema from a reputed University in Iran and decided to pursue her professional career in movie editing. Immediately after graduating from the university, she was recruited in the national TV of Iran. The majority of the edits she has carried out are for internationally well-known filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi, Bahram Beyzai, Bahman Ghobadi, Reza Dormishian, Alireza Raeesian, Shahram Alidi, and Mani Haghighi. She is best known for her long-time collaborations with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including the Oscar-winning A Separation and The Salesman.[1] She has received several precious awards namely, the Crystal Simorgh, the Statue of the Cinema House, the Asian Film Award, the Fajr film festival, Iran's film Critics & Writers Association; and Nominated for Cinema Writers Circle award, ICS, and Goya International Cinephile Society award. She extended her professional work to many countries, including Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. She has edited over 80 feature fiction films and several documentaries over the thirty years. Most of these films have been selected and Nominated by many well-world film festivals and received prestigious awards. This includes "Cannes film festival", "BFI", "Berlin international film festival", "Venice international film festival", "Golden Globe", and "Locarno international film festival". Two of the films she contributed as Film Editor, The Salesman, 2016" and A Separation, 2011" both directed by Asghar Farhadi, have been awarded in Oscar Academy as the best foreign-language films.- Editor
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Sheldon Kahn was born on 21 March 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Out of Africa (1985) and Junior (1994).- Editor
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Dody Dorn was born on 20 April 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an editor and producer, known for Memento (2000), The Abyss (1989) and Fury (2014).- Editor
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Hervé de Luze was born in 1949. He is an editor, known for The Ghost Writer (2010), Tell No One (2006) and The Pianist (2002).- Keiichi Uraoka was an editor, known for Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988), Oracion (1988) and In the Realm of the Senses (1976). He was married to Yukiko. He died on 24 November 2008 in Shizuoka, Japan.