Editing Mailer: A Conversation with Jan Welt and Lana Jokel

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film editing and montage, collaborative filmmaking, cinéma vérité, Wild 90, Maidstone, Beyond the Law

An interview with Norman Mailer’s two main collaborators on Maidstone (1970): Jan Welt and Lana Jokel.

Michael Chaiken

Michael Chaiken is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine and the editor, along with Paul Cronin, of Arthur Penn: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) and Albert Maysles: Photographs / Cinemagraphs / Documents (Steidl, 2007). He is currently assisting Criterion on a DVD boxed set of Norman Mailer’s Wild 90 (1967), Beyond the Law (1968) and Maidstone (1968–70).