Thelma Schoonmaker - Summer Staff Picks
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our summer tradition at Here’s the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer Staff Pick series. This week, we revisit Alec’s conversation with Thelma Schoonmaker, the legendary editor behind every Martin Scorsese film since Raging Bull. Known for her warm, unassuming presence, Schoonmaker has shaped some of cinema’s most intense and iconic moments—earning three Academy Awards and seven nominations along the way. She talks to Here’s the Thing host Alec Baldwin about Scorsese’s pet peeves, what it’s like to “create” violence, and the woman she credits with giving her the “greatest life in the world.”
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| 1:05.9 | This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from IHeheart radio. It's summer, and that means it's |
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| 1:20.1 | archives in our summer staff picks series. Next up is producer Victoria DeMartin. |
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| 1:32.5 | was editing my 16mm short film by hand on a vintage steam deck. |
| 1:37.5 | When I think of the legacy of flatbed film editing, |
| 1:40.0 | I immediately think of Thelma Schoonmaker. |
| 1:42.3 | She is the woman behind the curtain for Martin Scorsese's |
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