Category: Movies
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Before Ctrl+Z: Exploring Film Editing’s Golden Age with Walter Murch’s ‘Her Name Was Moviola’
Currently in post-production, Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is working on a passion project, ‘Her Name was Moviola‘, a documentary about cutting film the way it “used to be done”. What is a Moviola? Well, simply put the Moviola was a tool used in the process of editing film from the 1920 all the way to…
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The sudden death of film – Roger Ebert’s Journal
Who would have dreamed film would die so quickly? The victory of video was quick and merciless. Was it only a few years ago that I was patiently explaining how video would never win over the ancient and familiar method of light projected through celluloid? And now Eastman Kodak has announced it will no longer…
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Murch Says 3D Will Never Work
The future of 3D is blurry at best, as more and more industry leaders express their concerns with the technology and its long-term viability.  Hollywood editor and sound designer, Walter Murch is the latest skeptic to come out, explaining his viewpoint in a letter to Roger Ebert: …dark, small, stroby, headache inducing, alienating. And expensive. The question is: how…