One of Martin Scorsese’s most popular, successful and strikingly different films, Shutter Island, may well have been saved by long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker.
As part of Picturehouse’s year-long Scorsese Season, I took this film introduction, given in October 2026, as an opportunity to talk about Schoonmaker’s work and the jarring effect she brought to Shutter Island that may have reflected what Scorsese was going through personally at the time; causing him to almost lose the film.
Find where you can stream the film here.
