Editor Jay Rabinowitz, ACE Discusses the Very Last Film he Edited on Film, "Affliction"
Channel: Manhattan Edit Workshop
Date: 06/08/2014

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Editor Jay Rabinowitz, ACE discusses the very last movie he ever cut on film - "Affliction." This video is from the Manhattan Edit Workshop presents "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen" series.

Jay Rabinowitz, ACE, has enjoyed a long creative collaboration with Jim Jarmusch. Their previous work together includes “Broken Flowers,” “Coffee and Cigarettes,” “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” “Year of the Horse” (for which Mr. Rabinowitz received an ACE [American Cinema Editors] Award nomination), “Dead Man,” “Night on Earth,” and the “INT. TRAILER. NIGHT.” segment of the “Ten Minutes Older” series of short films.
 
His other credits as film editor include Mark Webber’s directorial debut “Explicit Ills”; Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There”; Frank Oz’ “The Stepford Wives”; Adam Bhala Lough’s “Bomb the System” (for which he was honored with the Best Editing award at the Milan Film Festival) and Weapons; Curtis Hanson’s Academy Award-winning 8 Mile; Arliss Howard’s “Big Bad Love” and R. Less Howard’s telefilm “Dawn Anna”; Stacy Cochran’s short “Richard Lester!”; Paul Schrader’s Academy Award-winning “Affliction”; Keith Gordon’s “Mother Night”; Lodge Kerrigan’s “Clean, Shaven”; and Sara Driver’s “When Pigs Fly”.
 
For Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, he edited numerous episodes of the television series “Oz” and “Homicide: Life on the Street.”  Mr. Rabinowitz worked with legendary photographer Robert Frank on the latter’s film “Last Supper.”
 
He recent work includes “The Tree of Life”, the latest film from writer/director Terrence Malick and “Rampart” from Oscar nominated writer/director Oren Moverman.

About the moderator: Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer and film historian, dedicated to sharing the editor’s invisible art with students, professionals, and the movie-going public. She is an Emmy-nominated film editor and the author of two acclaimed books about editing entitled "Cut to the Chase" and "The Invisible Cut." O’Steen is currently partnered with Manhattan Edit Workshop for her series “Inside the Cutting Room," and she also moderates panels for American Cinema Editors’ EditFest. To find out more information on her speaking events go to: http://www.bobbieosteen.com/.

"Affliction" (1997) A deeply troubled small town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while events occur that cause him to mentally disintegrate.

ACE is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing. ACE, American Cinema Editors (http://americancinemaeditors.org/).

Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Blackmagic and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications.

Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest quality education for filmmakers and editors. Focusing on both the art and technology inherent to our craft.  We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked.

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Featuring a clip from “Affliction” TM & © Lionsgate Films (1997)

“Affliction”. n.d. In Wikipedia. Retrieved September 22, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affliction_(film)

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