Having Schumer in the middle of things served as a reminder of how much more she can do in her tightly edited, 10-episode seasons than SNL's live, sprawling schedule will allow.
Many stories – the economy, climate change – aren't best served by pictures; others (inside Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Zimbabwe) often don't have pictures available until days after the event; many more work better with a well crafted, tightly edited package rather than a live feed.
But Schrader held it together, and his modest triumph is that he has made an elegant and sleek movie, artfully shot and tightly edited, on the cheap, though "The Canyons" might have been more fun if it had a trashier, or less austere, style.
The clothes seemed to distil the various lives of Tom Ford into one tightly edited collection.
But mostly, it is because the action was very tightly edited.
WINE LIST -- Well formed and tightly edited, with good choices in all categories, particularly Bordeaux.
The action is tightly edited, and the sentences jerk us forward like a leash.
This is a slim, tightly edited book -- generally a good thing.
All the characters are unusually intelligent, and the fast, scurrilous talk binds the tightly edited short sequences together.
