Walter Murch: podcast appearances and interviews

Walter Scott Murch, born on July 12, 1943, is an American film editor, director, writer, and sound designer. His extensive body of work includes notable films such as THX 1138, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather series, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost, and The English Patient. Murch has received three Academy Awards from nine nominations, with six nominations for picture editing and three for sound mixing. He was the first person to receive a credit as sound designer for his work on Apocalypse Now and also served as the editor and re-recording mixer of the film's more comprehensive version, Apocalypse Now Redux. In 1998, he was selected as the editor for the restoration of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil by producer Rick Schmidlin. As an author, Murch wrote a popular book on film editing titled In the Blink of an Eye. He is also the subject of Michael Ondaatje's 2002 book The Conversations. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert described him as the most respected film editor and sound designer in modern cinema, while David Thomson lauded Murch as a scholar, gentleman, and superb craftsman, noting that in sound and editing, he is without peer.