Walter Murch Movies

The gathered memories and warm recollections of the cast and crew of the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film, RETURN TO OZ. For the first time, we get inti...

On the 35th anniversary of the release of the landmark film "The Godfather," (March 15, 1972) we look back at the time and place of the film's concept...

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmak...

Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be "unfilmable...

A Biography of George Lucas.

The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.

A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.

Docupod gallery showcasing Murch's pioneering work on THX 1138

The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer of THX 1138. They discuss Lucas' vision for the film, including his...

A documentary about cutting film... the way it used to be done.

THE CINEMA WITHIN is a documentary about the psychology of film editing, edited and directed by Chad Freidrichs (The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, The Experimenta...

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85),an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968),a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a...

A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast. This feature also includes...

MURCH is a portrait of Academy Award winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch, whose unique approach to an invisible craft has fueled a visible...

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch talks about his work and philosophy. (Based on over 50 hours of Murch's lectures, interviews, an...

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)