Editor Thelma Schoonmaker — one of Martin Scorsese's most trusted collaborators for half a century — discusses working with TheIrishman director, film preservation and more on the latest episode of BehindTheScreenTHR. Listen:
— a record she shares with Steven Spielberg's longtime editor Michael Kahn, as well as the late Daniel Mandell and Ralph Dawson., an urgent need for Hollywood to focus on film preservation and a personal project in the works: "I am reading my husband’s [the late director Michael Powell] diaries now," she relates. "They’re very important for me to work on in the period between now and our next movie, to try and get them published.
She continues, "We’re trying to make a documentary about Powell and Pressburger, this incredible partnership. That will be centered around Marty’s incredible knowledge of their films and how they impacted him so deeply, because they’re very unusual.", she admits, "this film came together amazingly quickly because it had been so well thought out by Scorsese and Steve Zaillian. I was stunned, actually, how quickly it came together. They just hit it. They knew what they wanted to do.
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