The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film-Fast Shipping

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The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, anda rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share agreat passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the craftsof writing and film shine through.

It was on the set of the movie adaptation ofhis Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, that Michael Ondaatje met themaster film and sound editor Walter Murch, and the two began a remarkable personalconversation about the making of films and books in our time that continued overtwo years. From those conversations stemmed this enlightened, affectionate book—a mine of wonderful, surprising observations and information about editing, writingand literature, music and sound, the I-Ching, dreams, art and history.

The Conversations is filled with stories about how some of the most important movies of the last thirtyyears were made and about the people who brought them to the screen. It traces theartistic growth of Murch, as well as his friends and contemporaries—includingdirectors such as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Fred Zinneman and Anthony Minghella—from the creation of the independent, anti-Hollywood Zoetrope by a handful ofbrilliant, bearded young men to the recent triumph of Apocalypse Now Redux.

Amongthe films Murch has worked on are American Graffiti, The Conversation, the remakeof A Touch of Evil, Julia, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (all three), The TalentedMr. Ripley, and The English Patient.

“Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood.A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centreof various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of knows, probably, where a lot of the bodies are buried.”