Lou Lombardo is a Director, Producer, Second Unit Director and Editor American born on 15 february 1932
Lou Lombardo
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Birth name Louis Joseph LombardoNationality USABirth 15 february 1932Death 8 may 2002 (at 70 years)
Lou Lombardo (1932–2002) was an American filmmaker with credits on more than twenty-five feature films. Noted mainly for his work as a film and television editor, Lombardo also worked as a cameraman, director, and producer. In his obituary, Stephen Prince wrote, "Lou Lombardo's seminal contribution to the history of editing is his work on The Wild Bunch (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah. The complex montages of violence that Lombardo created for that film influenced generations of filmmakers and established the modern cinematic textbook for editing violent gun battles." Several critics have remarked on the "strange, elastic quality" of time in the film, and have discerned the film's influence in the work of directors John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis, among others. While Lombardo's collaboration with Peckinpah lasted just a few years, his career was intertwined with that of director Robert Altman for more than thirty years. In the 1970s Lombardo edited McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and several other of Altman's films. Towards the end of his career Lombardo edited Moonstruck (1987) and two other films directed by Norman Jewison. While his editing is now considered "revolutionary" and "brilliant", Lombardo was never nominated for editing awards during his career.
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