Thelma Schoonmaker began working with Martin Scorsese in 1967. ‘The Fight’ celebrates feats of Trump-era ACLU lawyersMore From the Los Angeles TimesYou may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.The most important thing you can do is look at older movies.
Thelma Schoonmaker, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros at the New York Film Critics Dinner in New York. If we feel strongly that one way is better than the other way, we screen it both ways and ask our friends what they think. He wanted to draw the audience into an intimate connection with the movie’s characters. There’s a joyous moment in director Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, opening November 23 from Paramount Pictures, when Sir Ben Kingsley–– portraying the pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1902’s A Trip to the Moon)—performs a magical feat onstage to thunderous applause. He didn’t even want additional sound effects like a glass being put down or people walking across the room. “He never wants to repeat himself and he sets himself certain challenges with each film, and I get to go over the hurdle with him.”Schoonmaker has already won Oscars for editing three of Scorsese’s films: “Raging Bull,” “The Aviator” and “The Departed.” This year she is nominated again for “The Irishman.”Sign up for our daily newsletter TOP OF THE WORLD and get the big stories we’re tracking delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter.
It’s a tool and you have to use it properly. It’s incredibly helpful, but we still love film and we try to keep it alive as much as we can. Schoonmaker has worked with the director since 1980's "Raging Bull," which won her … Thelma Schoonmaker at the 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in California. That’s 80 years of filmmaking with masterpiece after masterpiece in it.
Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' full English Full Movie Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' full Full Movie, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' full Full Movie I was worried that the trip would take people out of the movie, but Marty was adamant that it wouldn’t.
He wanted it to look deceptively simple, without flashy camera work and flashy editing. If anyone knows Martin Scorsese, it's Thelma Schoonmaker.
Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker (/ ˈ s k uː n m eɪ k ər /; born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over fifty years. It seemed to have worked because we screened the movie quite a few times before we put in any of the de-aging effects, and the screening audiences didn’t mind at all that the actors were not at all young in the early scenes. Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker narrates a clip from the home movies of her late husband, Michael Powell. They have become visual effects experts now. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980). I can speed up or slow down a shot, I can change the color, I can tell my assistants to take a lamp out of a shot. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, because you learn from them. It’s a very collaborative dynamic, and he says I bring out the humanity in him. I hated to learn editing on digital at first.
But I had a wonderful trainer, and finally two weeks into it, I said, “OK I get it!”Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in “Summerland,” a British World War II drama with a fresh spin.“Marty and I talk about everything in the editing room — religion, politics, art, music,” says three-time Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker during a recent interview at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. We don’t fight over the movie. Together, they’ve worked in countless genres — from mob movies to Biblical epics, period dramas to children’s adventures.“That’s one of the great things about working for him is that every film is different,” she tells Kurt Andersen. Great masterpieces were made in the silent era when they didn’t even have a moviola. Robert De Niro’s character is not able to hear what Joe Pesci’s character is saying in the phone booth when they stop to get gas. Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker opens up about her approach to editing, as well as working with her partner in crime, Martin Scorsese.
Be truthful to the material. I didn’t know anything about editing when I met him. That creates this sense of dread.
Thelma Schoonmaker. For example, we used to have to wait a week until we got a dissolve from an optical house. I hear from some film professors that some students don’t want to look at black and white movies.