The quiet heroine of the Quentin Tarantino success

September 30, 2010, 08:37 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/sep/2...

Sally Menke died this week, aged 56, after going hiking near the Hollywood Hills on a day that was extremely hot even by Los Angeles standards. Her sad death brings to a close the longstanding collaboration with Quentin Tarantino – Menke was the only editor with whom the writer-director has ever worked – that yielded some of the most exhilarating and accomplished films of the past 20 years. He once described her as "hands-down my number one collaborator", noting in an interview for the...