An interview with director Jeff Kanew (Troop Beverly Hills, Revenge of the Nerds)

A conversation with director and editor Jeff Kanew. We discuss his revolutionary techniques for editing trailers on classic films such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Graduate, and Rocky. Also, how directing his first feature film Natural Enemies led him to edit the Robert Redford directed Oscar winner Ordinary People. We discuss his breakout directing hit Revenge of the Nerds a classic comedy of the 1980s. And his friendships with actor Kirk Douglas and the late director Paul Mazursky. The interview was conducted in 2014.