“Our Job Was To Create Two Movies”: Editor Brian Kates on Kiss of the Spider Woman
Screening in Sundance’s Premieres section, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a reimagining of the 1985 film set amid Argentina’s Dirty War, with one prisoner relating his favorite Hollywood musical to the other. The film is directed by Bill Condon, whose credits include Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters, and both parts of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Brian Kates (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Killing Them Softly) served as the film’s editor, having worked with Condon many years ago. Below, Kates explains the importance of maintaining connections and how the filmmakers devised a method to edit the movie as quickly as the movie’s structure necessitated. […] The post “Our Job Was To Create Two Movies”: Editor Brian Kates on Kiss of the Spider Woman first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
Screening in Sundance’s Premieres section, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a reimagining of the 1985 film set amid Argentina’s Dirty War, with one prisoner relating his favorite Hollywood musical to the other. The film is directed by Bill Condon, whose credits include Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters, and both parts of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Brian Kates (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Killing Them Softly) served as the film’s editor, having worked with Condon many years ago. Below, Kates explains the importance of maintaining connections and how the filmmakers devised a method to edit the movie as quickly as the movie’s structure necessitated. […] The post “Our Job Was To Create Two Movies”: Editor Brian Kates on Kiss of the Spider Woman first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
