Murch's Law: The Art of Not Noticing the Cut

By: Kyle St-Amou​r Brennan

Walter Murch once said – “Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does”.

The editing in film often goes unnoticed. However, if one does not notice the editing, then it could be said it is doing its job. The editor works on the subconscious of the viewer, and controls “the story, the music, the rhythm, the pace, shapes the actors’ performances, ‘re-directing’ and often re-writing the film during the editing process, honing the infinite possibilities of the juxtaposition of small snippets of film into a creative, coherent, cohesive whole.”
This is a Collection of wonderfully edited films.

• 01
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 02
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 03
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 04
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 05
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 06
  Goodfellas
  Martin Scorsese
• 07
  Hiroshima, mon amour
  Alain Resnais
• 08
  Bullitt
  Peter Yates
• 09
  Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle
• 10
  Baraka
  Ron Fricke
• 11
  All That Jazz
  Bob Fosse
• 12
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 13
  From Here to Eternity
  Fred Zinnemann
• 14
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 15
  Run Lola Run
  Tom Tykwer
• 16
  The Bourne Ultimatum
  Paul Greengrass
• 17
  12 Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 18
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 19
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 20
  The Insider
  Michael Mann
• 21
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 22
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 23
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 24
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 25
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard