Mary Stephen
Editing · Hong Kong, China
Mary Stephen is a Canadian editor and director residing in France, originally from Hong Kong. A director of documentary and fiction films, Mary Stephen was for many years the editor of Éric Rohmer's films, with whom she co-signed the music for several films under the collective pseudonym Sébastien Erms. Decorated with the insignia of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (2018).
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Movie7.2DramaComedyA student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Movie7.7DocumentaryVeteran filmmaker Mary Stephen digs into her own family past to uncover the long-hidden origins of her Western surname, revealing a story of culture shock, colonialism, and contested remembrance.
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
2026 · 3 votes
- Movie7.3Documentary
Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004 · 3 votes
Movie10.0DramaShades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.