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Sep 2, 2022 · A Mediterranean-style home in Charlotte, North Carolina, owned by Michael Kahn, a businessman and owner of the professional ice hockey team the Charlotte Checkers, hit the market Wednesday for...
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Kahn began his career producing commercials for a New York ad agency, but soon found himself working in post-production after being offered a job at Desilu. The production company was owned and operated by the legendary television duo Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, but Kahn found himself being essentially the “male secretary” for editorial supervisor...
By the 1960s, Kahn moved up from an apprentice to assistant editor and began working toward the ‘8 Year Rule.’ This was an old rule that editors followed that dictated they had to work professionally as an assistant editor for eight years before they could edit a film or television show as the main editor. Jerry London was true to his word. Michael...
By 1977, Michael Kahn was already having great success in the film industry when a young director named Steven Spielberg, fresh off the success of Jaws, came looking for an editor to cut together his sci-fi epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Kahn once remarked that cutting his teethin the fast-paced environment of television set him up perfec...
After editing some of the most revered films of the 1980s, like Poltergeist, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Kahn would have an amazing run over the next ten years. Starting with 1991’s Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg, Kahn would edit Jurassic Park, Twister, The Lost World: Jurassic Park,...
Michael Kahn recently completed editing Bridge of Spies. He’s also slated to edit BFG and Indiana Jones 5. But his long list of credits isn’t what makes Michael Kahn so great. It’s his attention to the creative process of editing. It’s his incredible ability to know when and why you need a cut or a transition and how to blend the scenes together th...
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Dec 9, 2015 · Film editor Michael Kahn has been piecing together Steven Spielberg ‘s indelible images for nearly 40 years. The two first worked together on 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and...
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Apr 6, 2018 · Film editor Michael Kahn has long collaborated with director Steven Spielberg, including on “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” for which he won his first Oscar, and has edited Spielberg’s last two...
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Jan 1, 2006 · This year, film editor Michael Kahn, ACE, will mark his 30th anniversary with director Steven Spielberg, a run of success equaled only by the director-editor teaming of Clint Eastwood and Joel Cox, ACE, and Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE.
