Mini-Water Cooler: The Muppet Christmas Carol, Freebie and the Bean, Babylon, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On the January 5, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Opening Banter:
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Ben read The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.
- Jacob read The Big Show by Steve Pond.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Jacob watched The Banshees of Inisherin again, The Ref, Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and Babylon.
- Mid-Roll Sponsor break: “we’re going to take a quick break, and we’ll be right back”
- Ben watched You Never Can Tell, Matilda the Musical, and Freebie and the Bean.
- What we’ve been Eating:
- What we’ve been Playing:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Thursday, January 5th, |
| 0:03.4 | 2023 on today's episode of the show. We are going to gather around the |
| 0:06.9 | virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor, Jacob Hall. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, hello? |
| 0:16.6 | Jacob, how's it going? |
| 0:17.2 | We haven't really been doing anything. |
| 0:19.2 | So I guess let's just dive right into, well, you've been reading, right? |
| 0:23.2 | I mentioned this in a previous episode, |
| 0:25.2 | of previous discussion with you. |
| 0:26.4 | You were telling me about, you were reading a book |
| 0:28.5 | about editing from Paul Hirsch, the guy |
| 0:31.3 | who edited Star Wars and First Buellers Day off. |
| 0:35.0 | When I mentioned that I was currently reading a book called The Conversations |
| 0:39.2 | that was, basically it's a series of conversations with Walter Murch, the editor who worked on the movie, The Conversation, and The Godfather films, and he's just like a legendary sort of towering figure in film history. |
| 0:52.3 | And I finally finished this book, and it's very enjoyable. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm curious to see how it compares to the one that you mentioned, |
| 0:59.9 | which I also said that I own sitting on my shelf, |
| 1:02.3 | and I just haven't read yet. |
| 1:03.7 | Because this one is, it's kind of like an oral history where it's just like literally |
| 1:07.7 | transcriptions of like four or five different conversations that Merch had with the author of this book whose name is Michael |
| 1:15.0 | on dachte if I'm pronouncing that correctly who I think wrote the English |
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