Why Does Editing Work?

It's far stranger than it seems

Welcome to the 24 new subscribers (Roughians?) who’ve joined since my last essay. If you missed it, I'm biased, but I think it's a good'un: How the New Hollywood Died.

Have you ever thought about how strange film editing is?

No, I hadn’t either. But after reading Apocalypse Now editor Walter Murch’s In the Blink of an Eye, I can’t stop thinking about it.

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