Behind the lens: How two icons of film-making fell in love
Romance in the cutting room – when Martin Scorsese’s boyhood hero Michael Powell met his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, sparks flew.
Thelma Schoonmaker was stunned when she first met Michael Powell. He was a long-forgotten British film director living in obscurity, she was about to win her first Oscar editing Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull. But the meeting sparked a love story worthy of its own movie.
Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger is currently on at the BFI Southbank in London.
Correction: In this interview it is stated that Thelma Schoonmaker collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver but her official collaboration with him began a few years after the film’s release when they were both working on Raging Bull.
Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Maryam Maruf
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(Photo: Thelma Schoonmaker with Michael Powell. Credit: Courtesy of Thelma Schoonmaker)
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