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Sight, Sound & Story  - Bill Pankow, ACE and Jerry Greenberg, ACE on Kramer vs. Kramer (Part 2) with moderator and author Bobbie O'Steen. Editors Jerry Greenberg, ACE and Bill Pankow, ACE, talk about the best feeling that an editor can have, using a scene from "Kramer vs. Kramer." From the panel "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen," at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 8th, 2013. For more information go to: www.SightSoundandStory.com. Gerald B. Greenberg, ACE often credited as Jerry Greenberg, is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film "The French Connection" (1971). He received Oscar and BAFTA nominations for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) and "Apocalypse Now" (1979). Bill Pankow, ACE is an American film editor with more than 32 film credits dating from 1982. He won the Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Editing ...

From Manhattan Edit Workshop's "Critical Ends" series, featuring award winning editors discussing their craft as a part of our Six Week Editing Intensive. Bill Pankow, ACE, has enjoyed a long collaboration with renowned director Brian De Palma, beginning as an associate editor on the films "Dressed to Kill" and "Scarface." Pankow graduated to editor on "Body Double" and continued his affiliation with De Palma on such films as "The Untouchables," "Casualties of War," "Carlito's Way," "Redacted," and "Femme Fatale," for which he received the Seattle Film Critics Best Editing award for 2002. Bill has also collaborated with Charles Stone III on his films "Drumline," "Paid In Full" and "Mr. 3000 "and with Jean Francois Richet on "Assault On Precinct 13." "Carlito's Way" is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, base...

Each six-week intensive class at MEWShop welcomes its own individual Artist in Residence -- an accomplished editor who sits in with the class for two sessions to screen student footage, offer constructive feedback, and share stories and wisdom from their own, often long and storied careers. For the six week class ending today, July 29, that editor was Bill Pankow, ACE. Pankow’s career spans decades and genres, beginning with assistant editor positions on Kramer vs. Kramer, Scarface, and Wise Guys , all the way up to recent action comedies like American Ultra and Let’s Be Cops . His other credits include The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and The Money Train . This time around, the students screened two of his more recent films, American Ultra and Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1 . Here are five things we learned during his time at MEWShop: Cutting film in another language, as he did on Mesrine, isn’t easy. French wasn’t his first language - “I’m barely conversational,” he ...

From Manhattan Edit Workshop's "Critical Ends" series, featuring award winning editors discussing their craft as a part of our Six Week Editing Intensive. Bill Pankow, ACE, has enjoyed a long collaboration with renowned director Brian De Palma, beginning as an associate editor on the films "Dressed to Kill" and "Scarface." Pankow graduated to editor on "Body Double" and continued his affiliation with De Palma on such films as "The Untouchables," "Casualties of War," "Carlito's Way," "Redacted," and "Femme Fatale," for which he received the Seattle Film Critics Best Editing award for 2002. Bill has also collaborated with Charles Stone III on his films "Drumline," "Paid In Full" and "Mr. 3000 "and with Jean Francois Richet on "Assault On Precinct 13." "The Black Dahlia" is a 2006 American neo noir crime thriller film directed by Brian...