Barry Malkin

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Barry M. Malkin (born October 26, 1938 , † April 4, 2019 in New York City ) was an American film editor , who was best known for his decades of collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola .

Life

Barry Malkin was interning with editor Dede Allen on The Indomitable when he met the American director and editor Aram Avakian , who kept visiting Allen and then hired Malkin to assist in the editing of Lilith . It was Avakian who introduced Malkin to the young Francis Ford Coppola after he had already directed his first independent cuts with The Patty Duke Show , The Fat Spy and Act of Reprisal . After Coppola discovered that he and Malkin grew up in the same neighborhood in Queens , he hired him to edit his fourth feature film Love a Stranger .

The long-term collaboration with Coppola did not start in 1972 with The Godfather , but only with the sequel The Godfather - Part II . For this he also received his first prestigious nomination for a film award, namely for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing . He was also nominated for the sequel The Godfather - Part III . He received an Oscar nomination for best film editing .

Barry Malkin was a member of the American Cinema Editors .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry M. Malkin on radaris.com (English), accessed September 21, 2011
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ A b Gabriella Oldham: First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors . University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 9780520075887 , pp. 323-324.
  4. ↑ Gabriella Oldham: First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors . University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 9780520075887 , p. 326.
  5. ^ Gene D. Phillips: Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola . University Press of Kentucky, 2004, ISBN 9780813123042 , p. 56: “Barry Malkin was selected by Coppola as editor for the movie. He was a boyhood acquaintance of the director's from Queens. "
  6. ↑ List of members of the American Cinema Editors in (English) , accessed on October 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Malkin, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malkin, Barry M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1938
DATE OF DEATH 4th April 2019
Place of death New York City