Lou Lombardo (filmmaker)
Lou Lombardo was an American filmmaker with credits on more than twentyfive 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 Lombardos seminal contribution to the history of editing is his work on The Wild Bunch , 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 films influence in the work of directors John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis, among others. While Lombardos 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 amp Mrs. Miller and
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