Robert Hoffman moved up in the filmmaking ranks the
old-fashioned way — he got lucky. Years of working as a post supervisor
and assistant editor paid off when he was post-supervising
Ghost World for director Terry Zwigoff, who
recognized his editorial talent and eventually hired him to cut
Bad Santa. His latest project is Zwigoff’s
Art School Confidential, and he
told Film & Video how small but important parts
of that movie’s reality were remade in the editing room. When do editors
start thinking like VFX artists? And how much responsibility do they
have to maintain the truthiness of a performance? Hoffman is one of the
breed of tech-savvy editors who’s finding out.
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