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Oscar-winning editor Tom Cross, ACE on editing Damien Chazelle's "Babylon"

Art of the Cut

CHAPTER

The Importance of First Cuts

"We didn't really have an editor's cut. I cut while he was shooting, but number one, when Damien came in, Damien never likes to look at a assembly or first cut or whatever we call it," she said. "I would on the weekend, I would take stuff home and I would cut almost like laying down train track ahead of where we were going to be" She added: "The first cut that Damien and I watched, the first cut I ever saw was two hours and two-and-a-half."

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