Walter Murch: SUDDENLY SOMETHING CLICKED

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. (Description courtesy of Faber & Faber)

Walter Murch, ACE, is a sound designer, editor, writer, director, and author best known for his work on such films as APOCALYPSE NOW, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, GHOST, THE CONVERSATION, THE GODFATHER Trilogy, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, COLD MOUNTAIN, RETURN TO OZ, and JULIA, among many others. He has won three Oscars (from nine nominations) and has been called "the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema" by film critic Roger Ebert. Walter's sound work on THE CONVERSATION earned him an Oscar nomination, and his editing work on the film was selected by the Motion Picture Editors Guild as one of the best of all time.