Description

The Discussions is just a prize, important for any fan or student of film, and a rare, intimate look in to the sides of two accomplished musicians who share an excellent enthusiasm for film and story-telling, and whose knowledge and love of the products of writing and film shine through. It had been on the group of the movie version of his Booker prize winning book, The English Patient, that Michael Ondaatje fulfilled the master video and sound editor Walter Murch, and the two started an amazing individual discussion concerning the making of movies and publications within our period that extended over two decades. From these discussions turned this educated, loving guide -- a mine of great, astonishing findings and details about publishing, editing and literature, audio and music, the I-Ching, goals, art and heritage. The Discussions is full of tales about how a few of the most significant films of the final thirty years were created and about the folks who delivered them to the display.