Walter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking




Kamla Bhatt Show show

Summary: Meet  3 time Oscar-winning editor (http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Arts-And-Architecture/2011f-Behind-the-Scenes-Hollywood-Sound-Design-with-Walter-Murch.aspx)and sound engineer Walter Murch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WGP4dofgQ), who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how "digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the cinema." Mr. Murch points out before the digital revolution film editors were "physically cutting through the substance of film." Mr. Murch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CekY1JJe5A) started his career in the 1960s and has worked on a string of iconic American films like Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti , Ghost,  all three Godfather films, The English Patient, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Talented Mr. Ripley and  Hemingway and Gellhorn set to release in mid-2012. Mr. Murch is also the author of " In The Blink Of An Eye (http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Eye-Revised-2nd/dp/1879505622)." This interview was recorded at the First Palo Alto International Film Festival (http://paiff.net/) in 2011.