Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design - Hardcover

Murch, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571328857 ISBN 13: 9780571328857

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2025

Synopsis

"A vast treasury of ideas, observations and innovation." - Francis Ford Coppola

The triple-Oscar winner of the Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The English Patient presents a masterclass on movies and how they are made.

Highly lauded film editor, director, writer and sound designer Walter Murch reflects on the six decades of cinematic history he has been a considerable contributor to – and on what makes great films great.

Together with Francis Coppola and George Lucas, Murch abandoned Hollywood in 1969 and moved to San Francisco to create the Zoetrope studio. Their vision was of a new kind of cinema for a new generation of film-goers. Murch's subsequent contributions in film editing rooms and sound-mixing theatres were responsible for ground-breaking technical and creative innovations.

In this book, Murch invites readers on a voyage of discovery through film, with a mixture of personal stories, meditations on his own creative tactics and strategies, and reminiscences from working on The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, Lucas’ American Graffiti, and Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley.Suddenly Something Clicked is a book that will change the way you watch movies.

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About the Author

Walter Murch is best known as the Sound Designer and Picture Editor of The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, Julia and The English Patient. He has had a career in movies that stretches across fifty years, including his involvement in setting up Zeotrope studios with Francis Coppola and George Lucas in San Francisco in the late '60s. He lives between California and London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 0571328857
• ISBN 13: 9780571328857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368