Quentin tarantino editor sally menke biography
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by Garrett Gilchrist
Sharp dialogue. Splintered chronology. Bursts of extreme violence. Obscure film references. Must be Quentin Tarantino, the filmmaker who burst onto the American film scene in the early ‘90s like an adrenaline shot to the heart. He won an Oscar and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for the screenplay for 1994’s Pulp Fiction (with Roger Avary), and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Director.
Sally Menke, A.C.E., whose editing work on Pulp Fiction was also nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA, has been there every step of the way since Reservoir Dogs, providing the brilliantly bold cutting for all of the director’s films. Tarantino vanished after 1997’s Jackie Brown, resurfacing in 2003 with that roaring rampage of revenge, Kill Bill: Vols. 1 and 2, for which Menke received another BAFTA nomination. The pair’s latest film is one that he has wanted to make for a long time––Inglourious Basterds
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Sally Menke
Sally Menke was a film and television editor with more than 20 feature bio credits. Menke was a longtime collaborator with director Quentin Tarantino and was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Pulp Fiction. Tarantino routinely assembled “Hi framstöt (https://youtu.be/Ts9_5331qOk)” reels (included on the extras of many of his DVDs) where the cast and crew would begin each take by looking into the camera and giving her a shout-out she’d see months later in the editing room.
Menke's other rulle credits include Death Proof (2007), Grindhouse (2007), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Daddy and Them (2001), D.C. Smalls (2001), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Jackie Brown (1997), Nightwatch (1997), Mulholland Falls (1996), Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991).
Menke graduated from Tisch UGFTV in 1977. Film editors are
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Sally Menke
American film editor (1953–2010)
Sally JoAnne Menke (December 17, 1953 – September 27, 2010) was an American film editor, who worked in cinema and television.[1][2] Over the span of her 30-year career in film, she accumulated more than 20 feature film credits.
She had a long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino, and edited all of his films until her death in 2010. Menke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds. She also received three British Academy Film Award nominations for her work on Tarantino's Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds.
She was nominated 25 times for several different awards, and won 12 in her thirty-year career.
Early life
[edit]Menke was born in Mineola, New York, to Charlotte Menke, a teacher, and Dr. Warren Wells Menke, a management professor at Clemson University. She attended the PK Yonge Developmental Research School i