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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Overview
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-10-12
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- A.C.E., BBC, NHK Enterprises, TCEP
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kathy Bates as Narrator (voice)
- Martin Scorsese as Self
- Quentin Tarantino as Self
- Jodie Foster as Self
- Steven Spielberg as Self
- James Cameron as Self
- Sean Penn as Self
- Wes Craven as Self
- George Lucas as Self
- Paul Verhoeven as Self
- Zach Staenberg as Self
- Michael Tronick as Self
Crew
- Wendy Apple - Director
- Mark Jonathan Harris - Writer
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