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Beginning her career in the film industry as a college sophomore on the Columbia Studios lot back in 1943, Dede Allen eventually learned the editor’s craft under the tutelage of Citizen Kane cutter-cum-director Robert Wise—whose 1959 Odds Against Tomorrow was her first major work—and in the decade to come she would emerge as one of the preeminent editors in Hollywood, a crucial force in introducing techniques like the jump cut and the audio overlap to American moviemaking, as well as moving past the strictures of studio era continuity cutting to a more limber, modern cutting style. An homage to an innovator in an often invisible art, featuring highlights from seven decades of Allen’s extraordinary career.