Walter Murch

a perspective on film editing

In the blink of an eye

Comprises a revised second edition of film editor Walter Murch's thought-provoking essay on the art and process of film editing. Originally published in 1992, revisions take new technologies such as digital editing into account. c. Book News Inc.

A Perspective on Film Editing

In the Blink of an Eye

una perspectiva sobre el montaje cinematográfico

En el momento del parpadeo

Ben Bova

George Lucas

THX 1138

Michael Ondaatje

During the filming of his celebrated novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched the veteran editor Walter Murch at work. THE CONVERSATIONS, which grew out of discussions between the two men, is about the craft of filmmaking and deals with every aspect of film, from the first stage of script writing to the final stage of the sound mix. Walter Murch emerged during the 1960s at the centre of a renaissance of American filmmakers which included the directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Fred Zinneman. He worked on a whole raft of great films including the three GODFATHER films, JULIA, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING and many others. Articulate, intellectual, humorous and passionate about his craft and its devices, Murch brings his vast experience and penetrating insights to bear as he explains how films are made, how they work, how they go wrong and how they can be saved. His experience on APOCALYPSE NOW - both originally and more recently when the film was completely re-cut - and his work with Anthony Minghella on THE ENGLISH PATIENT provide illuminating highlights.

Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

The Conversations

Walter Murch est le monteur et le mixeur attitré de Francis Coppola. Depuis quatre décennies, il a observé, pratiqué, analysé et transformé le montage cinématographique. Partant de la question "Pourquoi les raccords fonctionnent-ils ?", il raconte les aventures les plus extraordinaires de sa carrière, dont celle d'Apocalypse Now, et se concentre particulièrement sur le passage de l'analogique au numérique. Murch rend compte des méthodes qu'il n'a cessé d'inventer pour composer avec ses "propres volcans et glaciers intérieurs". Le clin d'oeil, mais aussi la cuisine, les chimpanzés, la médecine, la danse, les étoiles... sont quelques-unes des images convoquées afin de rendre irrésistiblement claire une pratique pourtant complexe. En un clin d'oeil livre la théorie d'un inventeur, mais aussi une approche unique du passé, du présent et des perspectives du montage.

Passé, présent et futur du montage

En un clin d'oeil

Brillante, polifacético y sugerente ensayo sobre montaje escrito por el prestigioso Walter Murch. Empezando por la pregunta más básica acerca del montaje: ¿Por qué funcionan los cortes?, Murch invita al lector a un maravilloso viaje a través de la estética y las implicaciones prácticas del montaje cinematográfico. Esta edición incluye una extensa meditación sobre el estado actual del montaje digital.

un punto de vista sobre el montaje cinematográfico

Göz Kirparken; Film Kurgusuna Bir Bakis Acisi

Dorothy returns to the Emerald City to find it in ruins. She visits the Nome King, breaks the spell and returns the City to its former glory and returns Ozma to the throne.

Dorothy Saves the Emerald City

SUDDENLY SOMETHING CLICKED

Judy Collischan

Walter Murch, Paintings and Drawings

İlker Canikligil

Göz kırparken

Michael Ondaatje conoció a Walter Murch durante el rodaje de El paciente inglés, la oscarizada película basada en la novela por la que obtuvo el Premio Booker. Su curiosidad innata le llevó a intimar con alguien que, en principio, trabajaba con un lenguaje, el de las imágenes, que él no dominaba. Aquel encuentro derivó en una amistad a la que hoy debemos uno de los mejores libros sobre cine. El arte del montaje recoge verdaderamente una sola conversación entre el novelista y el montador y diseñador de sonido, aunque fuera mantenida en encuentros a lo largo de un año. El interrogatorio de un excelente novelista como Michael Ondaatje se convierte en una magistral lección de cine, una ventana a la creación y la técnica que rodea el oficio de montador cinematográfico. Se trata de una mirada única sobre el trabajo de directores como Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Anthony Minghella, Philip Kaufman o Fred Zinneman pero, sobre todo, una aproximación al arte del montaje tanto de sonido como de imagen y sus secretos. Galardonado con el Premio de los Editores de Cine y el Kraszna-Krausz al mejor libro de cine editado en Estados Unidos, El arte del montaje es un libro imprescindible para reconocer la materia de la que están hechas películas memorables en la historia del cine como Sed de mal, El padrino, Apocalypse Now, La conversación, La insoportable levedad del ser o El paciente inglés.

Una conversación entre Walter Murch y Michael Ondaatje

El arte del montaje

JULIANA LINS

Nesse 'Num piscar de olhos', o editor de cinema Walter Murch compartilha com o leitor sua experiência de mais de 30 anos. Partindo da pergunta aparentemente elementar - Por que os cortes funcionam? - o autor analisa a relação entre corte, continuidade e descontinuidade, traçando paralelos também entre filmes e sonhos, e entre o estado de espírito do espectador e a freqüência de seu piscar de olhos. Murch avalia ainda questões metodológicas, como o trabalho em equipe e a utilidade de projeções-teste. Oferece dicas práticas para todos os profissionais envolvidos na edição de um filme e, no que diz respeito a tecnologias e ferramentas, a edição digital é criteriosamente examinada no posfácio, ponderando-se suas vantagens e desvantagens.

a edição de filmes sob a ótica de um mestre

Num piscar de olhos

Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler's reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war. The film editor, fluent in translating the written word over to the languages of sight and sound, began slowly translating Malaparte's writings from World War II. The density and intricacy of his stories compelled Murch to adapt many of them into prose or blank verse poems. The result is a book of surprising insight and strange beauty.

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