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• 2022

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John Wilson speaks to leading names in art and culture about their formative influences and inspirations.

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Thelma Schoonmaker

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Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the turning points of her career, in conversation with John Wilson. She reveals the process of working with Martin Scorsese in the cutting room and how, through him, she met her late husband Michael Powell, whose films with Emeric Pressburger, both she and Scorsese had so admired from childhood

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Calum Baker

Last Thursday, Martin Scorsese introduced a pair of films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. This week, Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, who was married to Powell for the last six years of his life, speaks to John Wilson about her career and her own affinity for the men behind A Matter of Life and Death (which follows at 8:30pm) and The Red Shoes (10:10pm).

Capping things off at 12:20am is a 1973 episode of Parkinson that features legendary dancer Sir Robert Helpmann, who appears in The Red Shoes and choreographed its stunning 17-minute ballet sequence. Few movie scenes are quite so beautiful.

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rolenamePresenterJohn WilsonGuestThelma SchoonmakerProducerEdwina Pitman

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• Thelma Schoonmaker

  Summary

  Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the turning points of her career, in conversation with John Wilson. She reveals the process of working with Martin Scorsese in the cutting room and how, through him, she met her late husband Michael Powell, whose films with Emeric Pressburger, both she and Scorsese had so admired from childhood

  Review

  Calum Baker

  Last Thursday, Martin Scorsese introduced a pair of films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. This week, Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, who was married to Powell for the last six years of his life, speaks to John Wilson about her career and her own affinity for the men behind A Matter of Life and Death (which follows at 8:30pm) and The Red Shoes (10:10pm).

  Capping things off at 12:20am is a 1973 episode of Parkinson that features legendary dancer Sir Robert Helpmann, who appears in The Red Shoes and choreographed its stunning 17-minute ballet sequence. Few movie scenes are quite so beautiful.

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  Colour

  Credits

  Crew

  rolenamePresenterJohn WilsonGuestThelma SchoonmakerProducerEdwina Pitman

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