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Newsletter #125

February 6, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

by Walter Murch

Have you ever edited a film? Are you likely to? Probably not (though in the age of iMovie, you are more likely than you used to be). But most of the readers who have made Murch's elegant little guideb... (Tom)

Cover of The Day I Became a Bird

The Day I Became a Bird

by Ingrid Chabbert and Guridi

MADE-UP

There's no pink on the cover of this picture book, and no hearts, but it's a love story for sure. A boy falls in love on the first day of school with a girl who loves birds, so he becomes one (or at l... (Tom)

Cover of Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

by Lawrence Weschler

TRUE

Is Walter Murch a crank? That is, from one perspective, the question raised by this little book. But the flip side to that question is: Has Walter Murch, Oscar-winning editor of Apocalypse Now and The... (Tom)

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