Thelma Schoonmaker

I'm going to let that one hang.

I think there's a reason that last week's director in the hot seat Marty has seen this film at least 40 times by his own recollection because clearly after Thelma Schoonmaker passed, he took whatever editor was from this movie and made it his own because, yes, the length is very felt by the end of this film, regardless of anything else.

At the

end of the film, special thanks is given to Martin Scorsese.

It looked amazing.

Thelma Schoonmaker, who is, um, Martin Scorsese's editor, who's like a legend, I believe it was her who was lamenting the death of shots in cinema.

Mm-hmm.

She was like, "Back in the day, you, everything would be a shot." You know what I mean? It would be composed.

Uh [laughs]

Well, Thelma Schoonmaker was nominated for Goodfellas.

I don't care about their name.

Um-

It's kind of painful.

You see somebody like Thelma Schoonmaker who works only with Marty Scorsese, and that's easy and makes sense for her and them and him.

But with me, I've worked with a lot of different directors, and timing has just not always worked out.

So this was really a lucky timing for me.

Moving on.

Tonight for our 333rd episode, we discuss "The Departed" from 2006, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by William Monahan, cinematography by Michael Ballhaus, music by Howard Shore, editing by Thelma Schoonmaker, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Trooper William "Billy" Costigan Jr., Matt Damon as Staff Sergeant Colin Sullivan, Jack Nicholson as Francis "Frank" Costello, Mark Wahlberg as Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam, Martin Sheen as Captain Oliver "Charlie" Queenan, Ray Winstone as Arnold "Frenchy" French, Vera Farmiga as Dr. Madolyn Madden, Alec Baldwin as Captain George Ellerby, Anthony Anderson as Trooper Brown, Kevin Corrigan as Sean Costigan, James Badge Dale as Trooper Barrigan, David O'Hara as Patrick "Fitzy" Fitzgibbons, and Mark Rolston as Timothy Della Hunt.

Background for the movie.

"The Departed" was released on October 6th, 2006.

On a rough budget of $90 million, the film would gross over $291 million to finish number 14 at the worldwide box office for 2006.

Critics were effusive in their praise in the moment, with many notable critics having the film on their top 10 lists for the year and the decade.

"The Departed" was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for Mark Wahlberg, and winning four, for Best Picture, Director for Martin Scorsese, Adapted Screenplay for William Monahan, and Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.

In 2021, members of Writers Guild of America West and East ranked its screenplay 30th in WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century So Far.

He just needed his direction to perfectly mirror Pileggi's energetic prose.

The way Scorsese and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker cut the film, the relentless rhythm, the overlapping dialogue, the paranoid cocaine-fueled pacing of the helicopter sequence.

Oh, the helicopter sequence is legendary.

It perfectly matches the literary energy page for page.

I'm Steve Hullfish, ACE.

I'm a working documentary, feature, and TV editor.

For over a decade, I've interviewed nearly six hundred of the world's best editors.

Welcome to episode forty of season thirteen.

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, about his work on Netflix's The Whisper Man.

Chris has been on Art of the Cut before for The Menu, The Many Saints of Newark, A Quiet Place, and Assassin's Creed.

He has an Oscar nomination for Moneyball.

He has ACE Eddie nominations for The Menu, Joy, Moneyball, Analyze This, and Man on the Moon.

I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

Next week for our 333rd episode, we discuss The Departed from 2006, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by William Monaghan, cinematography by Michael Ballhaus, music by Howard Shore, editing by Thelma Schoonmaker, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Formiga, and Alec Baldwin.

You won't want to miss that one, so watch ahead of the show by searching the real good app to find where it's streaming for you.

That's R-E-E-L-G-O-O-D.

I agree.

So this is the perfect segue because like the very first scene, which is maybe like a thesis for the movie, is the Oscar Isaac as Nick Tosh's in a bar going on this whole rant about how he won't be edited, which is deeply ironic because like an editor's.

Which is also famous.

Martin Scorsese famously has worked with the same editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, for like 50 years.

And she's largely a big reason for why his films are as good as they are.

But he's complaining about editing.