Interview. Thelma Schoonmaker.

"In The Departed the camera work and cutting feel faster, lower to the ground, more urgent than they have in [Martin Scorsese's] recent films," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, adding, "(Michael Ballhaus shot it; Thelma Schoonmaker edited.)" Yes. "The speed and Mr Scorsese's sureness of touch, particularly when it comes to carving up space with the camera, keep the plot's hall of mirrors from becoming a distraction."

In his latest interview, Jonathan Marlow talks with Schoonmaker about her many years of collaboration with Scorsese and about what both she and Scorsese learned from the man he introduced her to, the man who would become her husband, Michael Powell.

Related: "The Departed.," an entry that'll continue to be updated over the next several days. (Now updated through 10/12.)

Posted by dwhudson at October 6, 2006 5:48 AM