Art of the Cut

Today is the 400th episode of Art of the Cut. We’re talking with two of the editors of the TV series, Wednesday. They are Jay Prychidny, CCE and Ana Yavari. Jay joined us just a few months ago to chat about editing Scream 6. Jay has won or been nominated for numerous Canadian Cinema Editors Awards for projects including The Alienist, Orphan Black, Canada’s Next Top Model, The Next Step, and Lost and Found Music Studios. He also won a BAFTA for The Next Step. His other credits include the TV series Snowpiercer, Altered Carbon, and Wednesday. Ana edited the TV series From, which is currently airing. She was also an editor on The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Hardy Boys.

Today we’re talking with the editors of the TV series, Poker Face. Those editors are Bob Ducsay, ACE, Glenn Garland, ACE, Paul Swain, and Shaheed Qaasim. Bob’s been on the show several times, most recently for the two Knives Out mysteries. He also edited Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, Godzilla King of the Monsters, and Rampage among many others. Glenn is a fellow editing podcaster himself. He hosts the Editors on Editing podcast, so the pressure is on. His work includes King of California and Halloween. Paul’s work includes The Unicorn, Brockmire, and Guilty Party. Shaheed’s work includes A Black Lady Sketch Show, which has been featured on Art of the Cut, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Modern Family, and Deadwood.

Today we’re talking with the editor of the TV series, Star Trek: Picard. Discussing season 3, is editor Drew Nichols, who is also an associate producer on the show. Drew started off in reality and documentary programming about 15 years ago and transitioned into scripted as an assistant editor on great shows like Mad Men and True Detective. He moved into the scripted  television editors chair on 12 Monkeys, The In Between, American Cartel, and MacGyver. 

Today we’re talking with Harry Yoon, ACE, Laura Zempel, Jordan Kim, and Nat Fuller about the TV series Beef. This is the first in a series of six Art of the Cut episodes leading up to Emmy voting. Upcoming shows will feature editors from Andor, Picard, Poker Face, The Last of Us, and Wednesday. Harry Yoon has been on Art of the Cut many times before, most recently for the film, Minari, but also for the films Detroit, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Best of Enemies. Harry was also an editor on the TV series Euphoria. Laura Zempel was also a previous guest on our Euphoria episode. She’s also been an editor on the TV series Dispatches from Elsewhere. Jordan Kim’s credits - among others - include Portlandia, Yo Gabba Gabba, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, and the great satirical show Documentary Now which was featured on Art of the Cut several years ago Finally, Nat Fuller edited the Film The Peanut Butter Falcon, with Kevin Tent, ACE. He was also an editor on numerous episodes of Stranger Things among other projects. 

Today on Art of the Cut, editors Fred Raskin, ACE and Greg D'Auria discuss the editing of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3. Fred’s been a guest on Art of the Cut for Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight. He was also a guest for Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood. He was on for the previous Guardians movie and for The Suicide Squad. He also edited the first Guardians movie, Django Unchained, Fast and Furious, Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Fast Five. Greg is also an alum of the Fast movies, having cut Fast and Furious 6, and Fast 9. His other work includes Star Trek: Beyond, among others. Raskin and D'Auria go back as assistant editors, both working on Kill Bill: Volume 1 under the legendary Sally Menke. They were also both editors on Bone Tomahawk.

Today we’re talking with Langdon Page, one of the two editors on the  Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary, Navalny. For which the editors won a British Film Editors award and were nominated for an ACE Eddie. Langdon’s credits include documentaries including Detainee 1, The Cost of Silence, and Maplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. He’s also edited the feature film Mary. Navalny was co-edited with Maya Hawke, who was unable to join the discussion.

Today we’re speaking with Oscar-winning editor, William Goldenberg, ACE about his work on the feature film Air, directed by his long-time collaborator, Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Jason Bateman.  Goldenberg has been a guest on Art of the Cut numerous times for films including The Outfit, News of the World, 22 July, Detroit, and Live by Night.  He was nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Oscar for The Insider, another Oscar and Eddie nomination for Seabiscuit. Then BAFTA, Eddie and Oscar nominations for Zero Dark Thirty, which is the same year he won the Oscar for editing Argo. And another set of BAFTA, Eddie and Oscar nominations for The Imitation Game. 

Today we’re talking with John Axelrad, ACE and his additional editor – and first assistant editor - Jared Simon about the film Chevalier. John and I have spoken several times through the years on Art of the Cut including for Antebellum, Ad Astra and Lost City of Z. Other feature work includes Papillon and Krampus. TV work includes Hack and Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion. Jared’s assistant editor work includes Antebellum, Ad Astra, Dog and The New Mutants. His TV assisting includes New Amsterdam. 

Today we’re talking with Dan Schalk, ACE about editing “A Good Person” which was directed by Zach Braff and stars Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman. Dan has moved from LA to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which is where he edited this film, so we chatted from only a few miles away from each other - me in Chicago. Dan’s filmography includes - among others - "The Superhero Movie," "She’s Out of My League," Judd Apatow’s "The Bubble," and "Girl in Progress." His work also includes TV like "Kevin Can F**k Himself," "Parks and Rec" and "New Girl."

Today we’re speaking with Nathan Orloff about John Wick 4. Nate was a guest on Art of the Cut previously for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His other work includes the feature film "Plan B," and work as an additional or associate editor on "Samaritan," "The Front Runner” “Tully,” and “10 Cloverfield Lane.”