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Peachpit Goes "Behind the Seen” with Academy Award-winning Film Editor Walter Murch Book Explores the Process and Experience of Editing "Cold Mountain” using Apple’s Final Cut Pro BERKELEY, Calif, Nov. 8, 2004 – Today Peachpit announced the shipment of its much-anticipated Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema, by Charles Koppelman (ISBN: 0-7357-1426-6, $39.99). Published under the New Riders Voices That Matter series, the book is available now from online booksellers and at local bookstores. Behind the Seen opens up an intimate, you-are-there view into editor Walter Murch's Oscar-nominated work on "Cold Mountain," his third collaboration with director Anthony Minghella. Murch is widely acknowledged in the film industry as a consummate craftsman and technical innovator, and his sound mixing and film editing on Minghella's "The English Patient" won unprecedented double Oscars. Director Francis Ford Coppola ("The Conversation," "The Godfather," and "Apocalypse Now") calls the book "an exploration inside the editorial engine-room of a major feature film--the first book of its kind ever and sure to remain the best. Charles Koppelman chronicles Walter Murch's astonishing high-wire trapeze act as he works his way through the first large-scale implementation of Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software. Must be read by anyone interested in film, computers, or how the creative process unfolds." In conversations with author Koppelman during the post-production of "Cold Mountain," Murch illuminates the ongoing transformation of filmmaking from its late 19th century origins to its digital transformation at the beginning of the 21st. He offers intimate glimpses of his own editorial craft, as well as insights into the crucial relationship between sound and picture. Along the way, Murch offers speculation about the role digital technology might play in the future of cinema, and reveals the technical and artistic considerations that lay behind his controversial decision to use Apple's $995 digital editing system on the $80 million "Cold Mountain" -- its first use on such a high-profile film. Writing in the book's foreword, director Anthony Minghella ("Cold Mountain," "The English Patient," and "The Talented Mr. Ripley") says, "Behind the Seen achieves something remarkable: a chronicle about technology and data, machines and methodologies which also manages to record a story of friendships and dreams." David Thomson, film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, concludes, cThis is probably the subtlest and most tender account of what a craftsman brings to a motion picture ever written." Behind the Seen is richly documented with excerpts from Murch's journals and emails (including correspondence with Apple), personal and behind-the-scenes photographs, and production stills from "Cold Mountain." In addition to his work on "Cold Mountain" and the "English Patient," Murch's other credits include film editing and sound mixing on "Apocalypse Now," "The Conversation," "The Godfather" Trilogy, "Ghost," "Julia," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and more. About the Author About Peachpit Contact: |
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