There are two film editors I absolutely adore, these editors are Thelma Schoonmaker and Sally Menke. One of my biggest passions in life is editing film and those two women are the professionals I have always looked up to and I feel inspired the way I cut film today.
It is sad I have to announce that Sally Menke at 56 years of age is no longer with us. A longtime film editor who has stuck by Quentin Tarantino as his film editor since Reservoir Dogs there is no doubt that this will have huge impact on Tarantino for his future films. I remember her saying in an interview once that Tarantino didn’t even have to explain what he wanted anymore cause she just knew.
Menke had gone hiking in the morning, and her friends alerted police after she failed to come home.
Search dogs, an LAPD helicopter and officers from patrol units spent hours in Griffith Park searching for her.
Her locked car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot. Menke’s dog was found alive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because the investigation was ongoing, said Menke’s body was found at the bottom of a ravine near 5600 block of Green Oak Drive.
No cause of death was immediately reported, and it’s unclear whether the heat was a factor.
Menke’s body was found just after 2 a.m. at the bottom of a ravine near the 5600 block of Green Oak Drive in Bronson Canyon.
Her dog was sitting next to her body, which was about a football field’s length from nearby homes.
It maybe unknown for sure what exactly caused Sally Menke’s death but was is known is she was only 56 and had a long successful career still ahead of her. It breaks my heart when such talented people pass away so abruptly. I’m going to watch one of her movies tonight in respect to her, I give my condolences to her family.
Also, did you know she edited the first TMNT movie?
