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Thelma Schoonmaker

Toast the 2012 Best Picture Nominees With These Oscar-Inspired Drinks

For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>

Spring Arts: Calendar of Events

For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>

Hugo: Martin Scorsese's 3-D Kid Flick

For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>

Public Speaking: Fran Lebowitz Talks a Blue Streak

For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>

Taxi Driver

For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>

Macy Gray's Sellout, Leonard Cohen In Bird On A Wire, Scorsese/Jagger's Rock Epic, and NPR Music's New iPhone App

​-- NPR Music: Listen to critic Robert Cristgau review Macy Gray's The Sellout. -- NPR: NPR Music launched an iPhone/iTough app today. Lotsa streams, interviews, tracks, shows, etc. -- NME: Bird On a Wire, the previously-unreleased documentary following Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tou ... More >>

Hank Jones, Joy Division, George Harrison, and Other Names From the Morning News

Hank Jones: 1918-2010.​-- NY Times: Hank Jones, who played piano behind Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Park, and, sometimes, with his brother Elvin, has died at 91. -- NME: Schoolchildren and members of the Northern Chamber Orchestra will perform the music of Joy Division in Maccesfield, England, t ... More >>

Looks Like We're One Step Closer to a Kurt Cobain Biopic. But Who's Gonna Take the Lead Role?

​Billboard's reporting that Oren Moverman, the man behind the Oscar-nominated flick The Messenger, in chats with Universal to direct and re-write the screenplay for their Kurt Cobain biopic, which is said to pull heavily from Charles Cross' Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven. Fingers crosse ... More >>

Music in Movies on Mondays: Scorsese Does Nilsson

​In this week's installment, I've been thinking about music as facilitator of a film's descending action (last week, it was a song as plot motivator). There are several stellar examples of this, but the first one that always leaps to my mind is Martin Scorsese's use of Harry Nilsson's epic, bo ... More >>

Summer DVD Roundup

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Plaka Estiatorio: Great for Kids, Better for Wednesday Nights

A toddler gymnasium in the early evening and a mellow date night after, Ballard’s new Greek spot is lively and lived-in.

Apropos of Nothing, My Favorite Rolling Stones' Song

Classic rock radio can be good for something, by golly, such as reminding me of how much I love this particular Stones' song. Veteran KZOK DJ Scott Vanderpool tossed "Tumbling Dice" into one of his sets this weekend and I almost blew my car speakers out from cranking it so loudly. There's just somet ... More >>

PICK Gomorrah: Martin Scorsese Loves It

Classic rock radio can be good for something, by golly, such as reminding me of how much I love this particular Stones' song. Veteran KZOK DJ Scott Vanderpool tossed "Tumbling Dice" into one of his sets this weekend and I almost blew my car speakers out from cranking it so loudly. There's just somet ... More >>

If the Discovery Channel Had a Sense of Humor...

Classic rock radio can be good for something, by golly, such as reminding me of how much I love this particular Stones' song. Veteran KZOK DJ Scott Vanderpool tossed "Tumbling Dice" into one of his sets this weekend and I almost blew my car speakers out from cranking it so loudly. There's just somet ... More >>

Shine a Light: Stones Are Old, Wrinkly, Big

Classic rock radio can be good for something, by golly, such as reminding me of how much I love this particular Stones' song. Veteran KZOK DJ Scott Vanderpool tossed "Tumbling Dice" into one of his sets this weekend and I almost blew my car speakers out from cranking it so loudly. There's just somet ... More >>

New on DVD: Local Teacher Conquers Florida Gunslinger!

Classic rock radio can be good for something, by golly, such as reminding me of how much I love this particular Stones' song. Veteran KZOK DJ Scott Vanderpool tossed "Tumbling Dice" into one of his sets this weekend and I almost blew my car speakers out from cranking it so loudly. There's just somet ... More >>

Thelma Schoonmaker at SAM

An Oscar-winning editor discusses her craft

Via Tribunali at Havana

An Oscar-winning editor discusses her craft

Oscar Predictions

An Oscar-winning editor discusses her craft

Best-Of Edition

A couple of 2006's ripest interrogatory plums.

Tea and Cate

A chat with the prickly star of three big holiday movies.

Nov. 1-8, 2006

A week of calamities: The Cold War, the Iraq War, and Katrina all over again.

Oct. 13-19, 2006

Hedwig, depressed Swedes, and a wandering Dutch architect in Africa.

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment.

The Band: A Musical History

Also: Jazzanova's new remixes collection.

Cheap Gifts!

Looking for last-minute items for your loved ones on a budget? Go no further than our third annual compendium of items under $50.

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Even when writing about Hollywood's stars, Peter Bogdanovich is always writing about himself.

The Martin Scorsese Film Collection

MGM Home Entertainment, $49.96

The 10 Best Films

No list is definitive, and this year we can expect plenty of critical disagreement.

The Sky's the Limit

In his best film since GoodFellas, Scorsese picks a tragic hero who couldn't master his life on the ground.

My Voyage to Italy

Miramax Home Entertainment, $29.99

The Set-Up

Warner Home Video, $19.97

Really the Blues

A new reissue column.

Living the Blues

EMP's new exhibit examines the Delta-Chicago connection.

Honesty at the Oscars

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Crime Lessons

A Brazilian gangster epic that's everything Gangs of New York should have been.

DVD of the Year

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival: 'This is the love crowd!'

Natural Bored Killers

Scorsese's gangster epic is a masterpiece of design and a storytelling disaster.

What We Can't Wait to See

The holiday flicks we'll be first in line for.

Up and Away

Peter Gabriel on his baby boy, working with Scorsese, selling a hat to Keith Richards, and the making of his latest album.

Bottoms Up

Movie producer seeks sudsy synergy.

The Last Waltz

Movie producer seeks sudsy synergy.

Ocean's Eleven

Movie producer seeks sudsy synergy.

Scary Movie 2

Movie producer seeks sudsy synergy.

Particular Gays, Particular Gifts

What to buy Circuit Boys and Indie Fags this season.

Tuscany in Washington

What to buy Circuit Boys and Indie Fags this season.

All is good and Welles

It's time: 1998 belonged to Orson.