Michael Kahn, ACE Discusses the Effectiveness of Not Cutting, as Seen in "Lincoln."
Manhattan Edit Workshop presents: Sight, Sound & Story - Michael Kahn, ACE on “Lincoln.”
From Sight, Sound & Story - June 14th, 2014
Michael Kahn, ACE is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott (“The Savage is Loose”) and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.
“Lincoln” is a 2012 American epic historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincolnand Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.[5] The screenplay by Tony Kushner was based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have theThirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
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Featuring a clip from "Lincoln" TM & © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures & 20th Century Fox (2012)
Michael Kahn. n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 16, 2014, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kahn_%28film_editor%29
"Lincoln". n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 17, 2014, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(2012_film)
