Michael Ondaatje on the Art of Editing Film

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Novelist Michael Ondaatje met film editor Walter Murch during the filming of Ondaatje’s Booker Prize winning “The English Patient.”  Their conversations matured into a book: “The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.”   Ondaatje tells Steve Paulson that pacing for film is entirely different than doing it on the page.  We hear a clip from Murch himself describing a scene from “The English Patient” and we hear that scene.