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A Conversation With Gabriella Cristiani

An hour long conversation with Oscar winning film editor Gabriella Cristiani. Cristiani is an Italian film editor with more than 27 feature film credits. She is most often lauded for her collaboration with the famed director, Bernardo Bertolucci.

Early in her career, Cristiani assisted editor Franco Arcalli on two of Bertolucci's films, including Last Tango in Paris. Arcalli was the "supervising editor" on the 1977 film, Berlinguer, I Love You, which was one of Cristiani's first feature editing credits. Arcalli was to have edited Bernardo Bertolucci's next film, La Luna, but he died during production. Cristiani, who was assisting, then took over as editor.

Cristiani won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1987 for The Last Emperor, which won a total of nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bertolucci. Cristiani's work on Bertolucci's next film, The Sheltering Sky, is noted for a technical innovationthe "nonlinear" editing of the film using digital techniques. Cristiani has edited films over the last decade with several different directors, and she herself directed and edited the 1999 film, Ladies Room.

MODERATOR:Fred Nelson, editor & actor, King Henry VIII, MD Renaissance Festival