In the final installment of a six-part series, Thelma Schoonmaker recalls Martin Scorsese’s 1990 mafia masterpiece “Goodfellas,” and how it owes a debt to her husband, the late director Michael Powell.
Thelma Schoonmaker remembers how 'Goodfellas' almost didn't happen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:51 am · December 26th, 2013
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Thelma Schoonmaker talks cutting 'Wall Street' improv and learning from Martin Scorsese
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:44 pm · December 20th, 2013
Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker and director Martin Scorsese’s work together extends over 19 feature films, a handful of shorts and even a Michael Jackson music video. Their latest work on “The Wolf of Wall Street” is another indelible notch on the belt. Schoonmaker recently sat down with HitFix to discuss this storied collaboration.
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Martin Scorsese talks 'Mean Streets,' 'Taxi Driver' and rediscovering that childlike spark with 'Hugo'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:26 am · January 31st, 2012
Last night the big tributes wrapped up here at the Santa Barbara fest with the presentation of the American Riviera Award to “Hugo” director Martin Scorsese. Leonard Maltin conducted the on-stage interview, which got started nearly a half hour late and still blew past the usual two-hour time frame as a captivated, capacity audience at the Arlington Theatre never budged and delighted in hearing the director’s tales of 50 years at work in the film industry.
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The Lists: Top 10 craft contributions to Martin Scorsese films
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:20 am · November 23rd, 2011
“Hugo” is the latest in a long line of Scorsese films boasting astonishing technical artistry — we round up the finest below-the-line elements from his oeuvre, including contributions from such films as “Shutter Island,” “The Age of Innocence” and “Raging Bull.”
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