Editor Craig McKay, ACE talks about the process of parallel cutting as seen in “The Silence of the Lambs.” This video is from the Manhattan Edit Workshop presents “Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O’Steen” series.
Craig McKay, born in New York’s Hudson Valley, is a feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing “Reds and ‘The Silence of the Lambs”, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries “Holocaust’, he has edited more than forty films including ‘Philadelphia”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Cop Land” and “Maid in Manhattan”.
Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer and film historian, dedicated to sharing the editor’s invisible art with students, professionals, and the movie-going public. Educated at Stanford University, she is an Emmy-nominated film editor and the author of two acclaimed books about editing. “Cut to the Chase” is based on interviews with her late husband and colleague, legendary editor Sam O’Steen, and filled with stories from the cutting room and behind the scenes on such landmark films as “The Graduate’ and “Chinatown”. Her second book, “The Invisible Cut”, deconstructs classic movie scenes from such films as “Rear Window” and “The French Connection” through a cut-by-cut analysis.
“The Silence of the Lambs” is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres. Directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn, the film is based on Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel of the same name, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as “Buffalo Bill”.
ACE is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing. ACE, American Cinema Editors (http://americancinemaeditors.org/)
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Craig McKay n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 10, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_McKay_(film_editor)
