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Suddenly Something Clicked

Walter Murch author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Publishing:8th May '25

£30.00

This title is due to be published on 8th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Suddenly Something Clicked cover

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 Grafitti, 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: 9780571328857

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

496 pages

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