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Among others, she&#8217;s edited Laurie Anderson&#8217;s documentary Heart of the Dog (2015) and Academy Award winner Laura Poitras&#8217; documentary Risk (2016). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kaisu Tervonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renowned film editor Melody London&#8217;s career began handsomely in collaboration with Jim Jarmusch on his early film Stranger Than Paradise (1984), which has since been selected into the United States National Film Registry as being \u201dculturally, historically or aesthetically relevant\u201d. This led to London becoming Jarmusch&#8217;s longtime editor. 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