A good editor is a jack of all disciplines: part musician, part magician, part physician, part mathematician, this man or woman must also have a sheer love of the craft, for his or her contribution to a film will be only subliminally appreciated by the masses. How do all of these admirable and diverse traits combine to produce a cohesive motion picture? So many abstract psychological concepts fuel the basic act of splicing shots together that talking about cutting is like dancing about architecture, to coin a famously discarded movie title. Walter Murch, who has edited films by Coppola and Zinnemann, among others, tackled the impossible question "Why do cuts work?" in his essential 1995 resource In the Blink of an Eye. Few outside of Sergei Eisenstein have answered it in such a concrete, engrossing manner as Murch. The legendary filmmaker has never been one to shy away from a challenge, as his cinematic attempt at "another Oz story" or his accepting the job of constructing the aggressively non-linear The English Patient also demonstrate. '95 was a good year for Murch; the release of Anthony Minghella's The English Patient set him on course to make history by receiving Oscars for both picture and sound editing. Since then, he has, to great acclaim, retooled Orson Welles' comic noir Touch of Evil according to the forty year old notes of its deceased director, edited Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley, and supervised the digital remaster of his Academy Award-winning, six-track soundmix for Apocalypse Now. (If I don't mention it here, I never will: Murch coined the term "sound designer" while working on that masterpiece.) As a film school graduate and aspiring director whose favourite part of the production process is post, I was grateful for the opportunity to inundate Mr. Murch--an inspiration of mine from an early age (see my Return to Oz review)--with questions about everything under the Hollywood sun. Of the special opportunities Film Freak Central has presented me over the years, this is my most cherished. Our conversation was conducted via telephone on February 29, 2000. -Bill Chambers | ||||
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| How come you didn't direct again after Return to Oz? Do you think you ever will [direct again]? I love the film, as you know. I argue with people who are inclined to compare it to The Wizard of Oz. In 1985, Back to the Future was the kind of movie that people wanted to see. Did you initiate the project?
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