Walter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking
By kamla bhatt • Feb 26th, 2012Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Walter Murch
Meet 3 time Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer Walter Murch, who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how “digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the cinema.” Mr. Murch points out before the digital revolution film editors were “physically cutting through the substance of film.”
Mr. Murch started his career in the 1960s and has worked on a string of iconic American films like Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti , Ghost, all three Godfather films, The English Patient, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Hemingway and Gellhorn set to release in mid-2012.
Mr. Murch is also the author of “ In The Blink Of An Eye.”
This interview was recorded at the First Palo Alto International Film Festival in 2011.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
Loved it. Especially the on-the-fly editing. It’s great and scary at the same time.