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The son of producer/director/writer Stephen Fleischman and editor Dede Allen—the latter the subject of a recent Metrograph retrospective—sound engineer and re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman has been working in the film industry since the late ’70s, an innovator in his field and an essential collaborator of filmmakers like Warren Beatty, Jonathan Demme, and Martin Scorsese. Here we pair two of Fleischman’s films with Demme and Scorsese—Something Wild and Hugo, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing—with two films that crucially shaped his approach to creating cinematic soundscapes, Robert Altman’s Nashville and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, respectively.