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Editing & Rhythm
The cut as music — tempo, timing, and the breath between images
Films in this lens
Whiplash (2014)
Cinematography by Sharone Meir
Tom Cross edited Whiplash like a drummer — cuts land on beats, or just before them, or agonizingly after. The editing IS the music. When Fletcher pushes tempo, the cuts accelerate. When he stops the b…
Psycho (1960)
Cinematography by John L. Russell
The shower scene has 70 cuts in 45 seconds. You never see the knife touch skin. Not once. But your brain ASSEMBLES the violence from fragments. Hitchcock understood that editing is not about showing —…
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Cinematography by John Seale
Margaret Sixel — Miller's wife, a documentary editor — cut Fury Road. She had never cut an action film. That was the point. She brought a documentary editor's sense of clarity to chaos. Every frame ce…
City of God (2002)
Cinematography by César Charlone
Daniel Rezende edited City of God like a DJ — layering timelines, looping back, speeding up, slowing down. The editing rhythm IS the rhythm of the favela: chaotic, beautiful, violent, alive. It does n…
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