"The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film", Michael Ondaatje
Walter Murch is one of the most respected film editors and sound designers, one of New Hollywod's central figures, having worked with Francis Ford Coppola in, for example The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) and George Lucas in THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973), in addition to having taken part in the restoration of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil from the notes that he had sent to Universal. He also edited The English Patient (1996) an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's famous novel. During several years, Murch and Ondaatje reunited for a series of interviews in which both discussed their crafts and the similarities they observed in editing and literature. Those interviews were collected in The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film . In it, Murch comments some of the scenes in certain films that he worked, and shows an enviable knowledge of painting, music, among other arts an...