Harvey Keitel in "Apocalypse Now"

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Harvey Keitel in Apocalypse Now

Walter Murch Film-maker

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112. Peculiarities of Francis Ford Coppola's style		117	04:09
113. Apocalypse Now: The General's speech scene		113	02:36
114. Harvey Keitel in Apocalypse Now		224	00:54
115. Dialogue does not sound so good in stereo	2	1242	03:54
116. Encoded sound		202	01:58
117. Embodied sound		155	04:07
118. 'The last thing you want to do is win the Oscar'		209	02:23
119. Disney Studios reaching out		111	04:41
120. Writing the screenplay for Return to Oz		94	03:03

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Tangentially, there is a shot of Harvey Keitel in the film, for those who are interested, and it is the shot of Willard walking from the helicopter to the boat and he sits down on the front of the boat with his rifle by his side kind of sticking up in the air. That's Harvey Keitel because that was a big shot to get. The sunset is just perfect. It was a big production to make this happen and they had shot it with Harvey Keitel. And unless you know, there's no reason to reshoot it with Captain Willard, with Martin Sheen. But in fact that... Harvey Keitel is in the film and he's in that shot.

Born in 1943 in New York City, Murch graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. His career stretches back to 1969 and includes work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, and The English Patient. He has been referred to as 'the most respected film editor and sound designer in modern cinema.' In a career that spans over 40 years, Murch is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola, beginning in 1969 with The Rain People. After working with George Lucas on THX 1138 (1971), which he co-wrote, and American Graffiti (1973), Murch returned to Coppola in 1974 for The Conversation, resulting in his first Academy Award nomination. Murch's pioneering achievements were acknowledged by Coppola in his follow-up film, the 1979 Palme d'Or winner Apocalypse Now, for which Murch was granted, in what is seen as a film-history first, the screen credit 'Sound Designer.' Murch has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and has won three, for best sound on Apocalypse Now (for which he and his collaborators devised the now-standard 5.1 sound format), and achieving an unprecedented double when he won both Best Film Editing and Best Sound for his work on The English Patient. Murch’s contributions to film reconstruction include 2001's Apocalypse Now: Redux and the 1998 re-edit of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. He is also the director and co-writer of Return to Oz (1985). In 1995, Murch published a book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, in which he urges editors to prioritise emotion.

Title: Harvey Keitel in "Apocalypse Now"

Listeners: Christopher Sykes

Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.

Tags: Apocalypse Now, Harvey Keitel

Duration: 54 seconds

Date story recorded: April 2016

Date story went live: 29 March 2017