All posts by Thelma Schoonmaker
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Thelma Schoonmaker
Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker’s long, presitgious career is one of Hollywood’s most enduring, rivaled possibly by her longtime collaborator, Martin Scorcese.... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator. Photo: Miramax Films. The first assembly is a first draft. When you first put...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s...