Geraldine Peroni

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Geraldine Peroni (born July 5, 1953 in Manhattan , New York City , † August 3, 2004 ibid) was an American film editor who gained fame in particular through her collaboration with director Robert Altman .

Life

Although born in Manhattan, Geraldine Peroni grew up in Rockaway Beach , Queens with her sister Pamela and brother Peter. In the course of her young life she worked in a wide variety of professions. She worked in a women's shelter , was a waitress , worked in high school and in the US Post Office Poughkeepsie . She was also one of the first women to pass the New York City Fire Department's written fire exams in 1977. While driving cabs for Ann Service Company in New York City, she met a budding screenwriter who was studying at Hunter College and convinced her to do the same. She enrolled and successfully graduated in film.

After completing her studies, she got the chance to work as an assistant editor for the drama Drei Frauen in New York in 1983 for the first time . She then assisted Sonya Polonsky in Matewan and Elizabeth Kling in Satan's Vassals , before she was able to assist Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker twice in The Last Temptation of Christ and New York Stories .

She had a long-standing collaboration and deep friendship in particular with the American auteur filmmaker Robert Altman . After he invited her to France in the late 1980s, he offered her her first independent film editing in the biopic Vincent and Theo . Seven more films were to follow, including Short Cuts , Prêt-à-Porter and Dr. T and the Women . According to Altman, the relationship was based on a deep trust that they blindly understood each other. (I trusted her totally with everything [...] She and I saw very much the same way - we just read each other so well.) It even went so far that Altman often worked with the ulterior motive during the shooting of whether it was his personal editor likes what he produces there. (It gets to the point where I could be shooting a scene and a little bird will jump into my ear and say, 'Gerri's not going to like this'.) He trusted her judgment so much that she kept repeating herself when editing the film could enforce. She cut scenes with guest stars Patrick Swayze and Jeff Daniels in The Player . For this film cut she was awarded an Oscar nomination for Best Editing in 1993 .

In addition to her 19-year membership of the American Cinema Editors , she was primarily known for editing with old machines such as Steenbeck or Moviola and for refusing to learn the Avid digital cutting technique .

On August 3, 2004, Geraldine Peroni, according to the coroner, committed suicide in her Manhattan home, which the family denied. She passed away while filming Brokeback Mountain , so the rest of her work was taken over by her former assistant, editor Dylan Tichenor . Both were later nominated for a British Academy Film Award and an Eddie Award , among others . She also received a satellite award posthumously .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • Eddie Awards
    • 1993: Best Edited Feature Film - The Player (nominated)
    • 2006: Best Edited Feature Film - Brokeback Mountain (nominated)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ben Sisario: Geraldine Peroni, 51; Film Editor Worked With Robert Altman on nytimes.com on August 7, 2004, accessed June 21, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c Geraldine Peroni ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on blogofdeath.com , accessed June 21, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blogofdeath.com
  3. ↑ a b Geraldine Peroni  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on variety.com from August 7, 2004, accessed June 21, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  4. ↑ a b Tony Sloman: Geraldine Peroni - Oscar-nominated film editor on 'The Player' on independent.co.uk from August 31, 2004 (English), accessed June 21, 2011
  5. ↑ a b Sharon Benoit: Picture Editor Geraldine Peroni ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at editorsguild.com , accessed June 21, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.editorsguild.com
  6. ↑ http://www.dga.org/news/v29_1/craft_dir-eds_504.php3
personal data
SURNAME Peroni, Geraldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2004
Place of death Manhattan , New York City