Sally Menke
| Sally Menke | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sally JoAnne Menke December 17, 1953 Mineola, New York, United States |
| Died | September 27, 2010 (aged 56) Bronson Canyon, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Film editor |
| Years active | 1980–2010 |
| Spouse(s) |
Dean Parisot (m. 1986–2010; her death) |
| Children | 2 |
Sally JoAnne Menke (December 17, 1953 – September 27, 2010) was an American film and television editor.
Menke had a long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino, having edited all of his films until she died. Menke was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Pulp Fiction, of which Variety's Todd McCarthy wrote, "Sally Menke's editing reps the definition of precision."
Menke was born in Mineola, New York, the daughter of Charlotte, a teacher, and Dr. Warren Wells Menke, a professor of management at Clemson University. Menke graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film Program. She earned a bachelor of fine arts in film in 1977.
Menke's early career saw her edit documentaries for CBS. She worked on many films in the 1990s, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heaven & Earth and Mulholland Falls.
Menke met Quentin Tarantino when he held interviews for an editor. Tarantino sent her the script for Reservoir Dogs and she said that she thought it was "amazing". Menke was hiking in Canada when she decided to call and see if she got the job and was told that she had been successful. Menke went on to work with Tarantino on everything he directed for the remainder of her life. Tarantino summarized their working relationship in 2007, saying that "The best collaborations are the director-editor teams, where they can finish each other's sentences" and that Menke was his "only, truly genuine collaborator".
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