DVD, Digital Release: The Cinema Within

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Laurence
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DVD, Digital Release Date: May 20, 2025
Price: DVD $14.96
Studio: First Run Features

Produced over the course of four years, The Cinema Within is a feature-length documentary that delves into the psychology of film editing – the mystery behind how and why an edited films flows so naturally and feels like it effortlessly makes sense.

Drawing on the insights of veteran editor Walter Murch (editor of Francis Coppola’s The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, among many), scholar David Bordwell, and a varied group of perceptual scientists, filmmaker Chad Freidrichs’ The Cinema Within explores the idea that in film’s earliest years, the most common edits were instinctively shaped to fit the contours of human perception and it dives deep into the deliberately hidden language of film editing – a language so seemingly natural it usually goes unnoticed.

Drawing on dozens of examples from both well-known and obscure films across cinema history, the doc explores not only the essential grammar of the world’s most popular art form, but the very mechanics of how we perceive reality.

Alongside its DVD release, The Cinema Within is currently available to stream on Amazon, Apple TV and Kanopy.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.