From seamless Hollywood action sequences to artistic, edgy jump cuts, THE CINEMA WITHIN delves into the language and psychology of film editing, probing the mystery of how and why an edited movie so effortlessly makes sense—despite (or because of) how our brains are wired to think. Legendary editor Walter Murch (The Godfather trilogy), scholar David Bordwell, and an assortment of psychologists and neuroscientists provide expert insight into the building blocks of film editing, from early cinema to today, and its relationship with the mechanisms of human perception. Francis Ford Coppola once said, “the essence of cinema is editing” and, from the quiet cutting room to the remote mountains of Turkey (where a group of people who have never seen films before resides), THE CINEMA WITHIN thoughtfully and meticulously puts this notion to the test. In English and Turkish with English subtitles.