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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

How did you get involved in the re-editing of Touch of Evil? In short, if I'd like to see a good tragic love movie, I'd still turn to The English Patient. In The Conversations you talk about the lead role of Apocalypse Now being originally shot with Harvey Keitel, and how that was a totally different film because when you look at Keitel it's not about watching him observe things. According to Walter Murch — the first person to be credited the title in recognition of his contribution to the film Apocalypse Now (Coppola 1979) — the role of the sound designer is to take care of the overall treatment of sound in film (Thom 1998, 122). In 1998, while researching the revision of Touch of Evil, I pursued an interview with Walter Murch, then and now arguably the dean of American film sound and. As an interviewee; as only one example of this, novelist Michael Ondaatje recorded an entire book's worth of interviews with Murch, later published under the title The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. Lecture that I had given in Los Angeles over the summer at the County Museum on film and film sound, specifically on The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, for which I had done the sound design and the sound mix as well as the picture editing. The conversations : Walter Murch and the art of editing film. Favorite Non-Fiction Book published in 2012: Can Animals Be Moral? While editing The Unbearable Lightness of Being in France, Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch came across a reference to Italian writer Curzio Malaparte's description of horses being suddenly flash frozen . Favorite Non-Fiction Book Read: *The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film* Michael Ondaatje. The soundscape : our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. His most recent nonfiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film. Rarely has a book given me as much pleasure. Ondaatje's latest novel is titled Divisadero (2007). He later conducted a series of interviews with Murch that were published as The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. Murch was also the subject of interest to novelist Michael Ondaatje who composed The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (2002). The recording, processing, editing and mixing of sound effects, including “on screen”, Foley, and background sound effects, is often managed by a sound designer.