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Interview Saar Klein for Things People Do Deauville 2014
Saar Klein (Hebrew: סער קליין; born 1967 in Israel) is an American film editor who has been nominated twice for Academy Awards (for The Thin Red Line (1998) and for Almost Famous (2000)), and who received an ACE Eddie Award for editing the latter film.
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- Interview Saar Klein for Things People Do Deauville 2014
- Press Junket Saar Klein Things people do
- Personal life
- Career
- Filmography as feature film editor
- References
Press Junket Saar Klein Things people do
Personal life
Klein was born in Israel. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of 10. In 1989, Klein received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Career
Klein was offered an internship with editor Joe Hutshing on the film JFK (directed by Oliver Stone-1991); his first editing credit (as an apprentice to editors David Brenner and Sally Menke) was for the 1993 film Heaven & Earth (directed by Oliver Stone). The Thin Red Line, which was nominated for an editing Academy Award, was only his second credit as an editor. Klein shared this credit with Leslie Jones and Billy Weber; the film was directed by Terrence Malick. Klein and Joe Hutshing co-edited Almost Famous (2000), which was directed by Cameron Crowe.
Klein edited The Bourne Identity (directed by Doug Liman - 2002), which was the first in the series of films based on the novels of Robert Ludlum. Christopher Rouse, who worked as an additional editor on The Bourne Identity, edited the subsequent films that were directed by Paul Greengrass. Klein subsequently co-edited The New World (2005) (again with director Terrence Malick); Malick's films have typically used several editors. Klein recently edited Jumper (2008) (with director Doug Liman).
Klein has written and directed two short films, Nouveau Riche No. 11 and Nouveau Riche No. 34, which have been shown at several film festivals.
His directorial debut film Things People Do premiered in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.
Filmography (as feature film editor)
- Fighting (Montiel-2009; with Jake Pushinsky)
- Jumper (Liman-2008)
- The New World (Malick-2005; with Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, and Mark Yoshikawa)
- The Bourne Identity (Liman-2002)
- Almost Famous (Crowe-2000; with Joe Hutshing)
- Endurance (Woodhead, Greenspan-1999)
- The Thin Red Line (Malick-1998; with Leslie Jones and Billy Weber)
- For Which He Stands (McCormick-1996)