Movies: Thelma Schoonmaker

A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962)....

Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical, avant-garde kaleidoscope about a man named Finnegan who dreams about his wake and then wakes up from...

In the late spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C.. A group of New York University film students documented ...

A short documentary film about fashion designer Giorgio Armani; it shows him preparing for a show and discusses his ideas about fashion, his family history and the city of Milan....

The making of Martin Scorsese's cult film "After Hours" is discussed by the director himself, Griffin Dunne, editor Thelma Schoonmaker and producer Amy Robinson, almost 20 years later of its release. They share stories about the movie's inception, th...

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work....

The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atomic bomb on Manhattan and blaming it on the Red Chinese....

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'...

A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well a...

Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape....

The second part about the production of "Raging Bull."...

The fourth and final installment about the production of "Raging Bull."...

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter....

This documentary looks back at the filming of Powell and Pressburger's Shropshire set, neo-romantic classic, 'Gone to Earth' told through the stories of Much Wenlock villagers who appeared in the film as extras back in 1949....

The third part about the production of "Raging Bull."...

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him....

Martin Scorsese visits the New York City neighborhood he grew up in, showing how he incorporated the place, its people and its history into his films....

A documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's After Hours....

A television documentary film featuring the rock band Wings. It consists of concert performances from their acclaimed 1975–76 world tour, together with behind-the-scenes footage. Also included is a short excerpt of Wings rehearsing at London's Instit...

An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff....