Famed film editor Walter Murch is the subject of this documentary interview. He has put his cut and splice skills to films such as Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather, THX-1138, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Touch of Evil. Not surprisingly, he went to film school with directors Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas.
This is mandatory viewing for any film students, or anyone who has any ambition to commit image to celluloid or nowadays hard drive. With his salt and pepper beard, and radio announcer voice he's an engaging and personable speaker. In great detail Murch explains his methods, techniques, and philosophy of editing together a film. Illustrative scenes are taken from the aforementioned movies. The filmmakers use jump cuts and other editing devices as Murch speaks to reinforce the point.
The filmmakers Edie and David Ichioka were in the audience and took questions after the screening. Edie was an assistant editor to Murch so he was quite open to her questions, and she had full access to him for two days. There were many questions and discussion about film editing technology from the audience. The film didn't touch on the transition from analog film splicing to digital editing systems. There was much interest in Murch's transition from the original non-linear editing system Avid to Apple Computer's later entrant Final Cut Pro.
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