Walter Murch

Film historian Walter Murch was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about translating the work of anti-totalitarian WWII journalist and writer Curzio Malaparte. He also told us about his love of particle physics and English muffins! Find out what else Walter Murch is up to these days.

Film editor Walter Murch, discusses translating the work of Curzio Malaparte, an Italian of German heritage who was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat whose writing attacked totalitarianism and Hitler’s reign. As a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milan daily, he wrote dispatches of the war in the early 1940s that were suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers. Murch translated and adapted Malaparte into prose or blank verse poems in The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage; The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte.

A lot of artists have attempted to embellish The Wizard of Oz, like the musical Wiz from the 1970s or today's Wicked musical on Broadway. Walter Murch is a legendary film editor, perhaps Hollywood's greatest. He made his debut as a director with his own Return to Oz, a dark ...

Walter Murch and Salman Rushdie reflect on the meaning of home.

Walter Murch is that rare creature — an artist almost universally considered a master in his field. He edits sound and images for movies. His credits include the Godfather, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Conversation, and Cold Mountain.

Kurt Andersen and master film editor Walter Murch talk about the simple and complex tools we use to innovate in art.

Walter Murch is that rare creature — an artist almost universally considered a master in his field. He edits sound and images for movies. His credits include the Godfather, ...