An Evening with Walter Murch
Join Stephen Berkman, adjunct professor in ArtCenter’s Film department, for a lively discussion with pioneering film editor, director and sound designer Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) on the Academy Award-winner’s groundbreaking editing techniques and his collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Anthony Minghella.
The conversation will be followed by a tandem book signing by Murch and his wife, Muriel, of their latest, including Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design and Harvesting History While Farming the Flats.
Admission is FREE and open to the public with RSVP
Seats are first-come, first-served; RSVP does not guarantee admission.
Three films from Walter Murch's body of work will be screened on three consecutive evenings preceding the public event.
Free movie screenings
August 5–7
Tuesday, August 5
Apocalypse Now
Wednesday, August 6
The Conversation
Thursday, August 7
Her Name was Moviola
(New documentary about Walter Murch)
All screenings begin at 6 p.m. in the Ahmanson Auditorium, ArtCenter’s Hillside Campus.
No RSVP is required for the screenings.
About Walter Murch
Walter Murch has been editing film and designing soundtracks for sixty years. His work includes all three Godfather films, THX-1138, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Julia, Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain and Jarhead. He is both the author and subject of numerous books, including Blink of an Eye (1995) and the recently published Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design (2025). He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and nine BAFTAs, winning three of each. The American Film Institute will confer upon Murch an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at its AFI Conservatory commencement ceremony on August 8, 2025.