The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

He later conducted a series of interviews with Murch that were published as The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. The film's editor, Walter Murch, is a bit of a physics autodidact, finding time to read up the origins of the universe in between editing films like The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The English Patient. Ondaatje is also the author of The Conversations: Walter Murch & The Art Of Editing Film, an invaluable non-fiction work that explores the uniquely powerful role of the editor within the creative process of filmmaking. February 7, 2012 | by Josh Melnick. Kazuo Ishiguro Booksigning – Signing his novel Never Let Me Go, adapted for Mark Romanek's film. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. Josh Melnick and Walter Murch in Conversation. How did you get involved in the re-editing of Touch of Evil? Rarely has a book given me as much pleasure. In 1998, while researching the revision of Touch of Evil, I pursued an interview with Walter Murch, then and now arguably the dean of American film sound and. Lecture that I had given in Los Angeles over the summer at the County Museum on film and film sound, specifically on The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, for which I had done the sound design and the sound mix as well as the picture editing. Michael Ondaatje Booksigning – Signing copies of The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing. I found this book in a free box in front of my house, but i would have paid lots for it if i came across it in a store. What they deal I re-mastered The Conversation a number of years ago for Blu Ray. Particle Fever's In fact, the scientists don't even use the splash diagrams, which are very beautiful–they look like '60s pop art these kind of targets with splashes. If you haven't not yet read it, I can't recommend Michael Ondaatje's “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film” highly enough.