{"product_id":"the-conversations-walter-murch-and-the-art-of-editing-film-9780375709821","title":"The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Conversations is a treasure  essential for any lover or student of film  and a rare  intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling  and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.  It was on the set of the movie adaptation of his Booker Prize-winning novel  The English Patient  that Michael Ondaatje met the master film and sound editor Walter Murch  and the two began a remarkable personal conversation about the making of films and books in our time that continued over two years. From those conversations stemmed this enlightened  affectionate booka mine of wonderful  surprising observations and information about editing  writing and 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 thirty years were made and about the people who brought them to the screen. It traces the artistic growth of Murch  as well as his friends and contemporariesincluding directors such as Francis Ford Coppola  George Lucas  Fred Zinneman and Anthony Minghellafrom the creation of the independent  anti-Hollywood Zoetrope by a handful of brilliant  bearded young men to the recent triumph of Apocalypse Now Redux.  Among the films Murch has worked on are American Graffiti  The Conversation  the remake of A Touch of Evil  Julia  Apocalypse Now  The Godfather (all three)  The Talented Mr. 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 centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows  probably  where a lot of the bodies are buried.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279794430005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375709827","price":42.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375709821.jpg?v=1780610585","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-conversations-walter-murch-and-the-art-of-editing-film-9780375709821","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}