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

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Contributors:

Walter Murch (Author)

Contributors: Walter Murch (Author)

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"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.

ISBN-10: 0571328857
ISBN-13: 9780571328857
Author: Murch, Walter
Publisher: Faber & Faber

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ISBN-13: 9780571328857

ISBN-10: 0571328857

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Publish Date: July 15, 2025

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 368

Dimensions: 9.7 × 7.5 × 1.4 in

Weight: 2.7 lbs

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