"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
, Lucas’
American Graffiti
, and Anthony Minghella’s
The Talented Mr Ripley
.
Suddenly Something Clicked
is a book that will change the way you watch movies.