Best Martin Scorsese movie

but generally I'm just tired of the 'guy becomes big shot in city and has quirky friends' formula

the tone feels off, jokes feel flat

Written by Terrence Winter, hmm.

Bringing Out the Dead also had "You Can't Throw Your Arms Around a Memory." Great trailer, too. Lottla cool camera moves in the flick as well, for such a bust.

"Gangs of New York," aside from Day-Lewis, is totally worthless. Might as well be shot in Disneyland. I hate when filmmakers build these sets so massive and elaborate they never leave them.

Before I opened that trailer, just looking at the still image, I started hearing Rupert Pupkin: "I'll give you anything, but don't ask me to do six weeks! I can't take over the show for six weeks...I can't even take over my own life for six weeks!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PAjFESb6WGk

― Number None, Monday, June 17, 2013 5:48 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ahh! im hot! im big!

shoulda been wahlberg. sorta despise leo these days

Scorsese belle lettres:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/persisting-vision-reading-language-cinema/

I'll put this here rather than the proper thread. Some film posters I like have written about how much they liked The Wolf of Wall Street, and I don't want this to seem in any way like a response to their posts.

I really hated it--so much so, I'll keep this short. I liked the quiet ending, liked the FBI guy, liked five seconds of somebody dancing to Bo Diddley. Three long, shrill scenes where I felt embarrassed for Scorsese: DiCaprio's speech before the Steve Madden IPO; the quaalude overdose; the divorce argument. A couple of films into their collaboration, I used to think Scorsese needed to ditch DiCaprio. I've really changed my thinking on that.

just curious, do you like any movies where people scream a lot

Good question--can't think of any offhand. I checked a list of favourites I made a few years back, and while there are definitely such scenes scattered about, it's just something I tend to recoil from when there's a lot of it.

http://www.celluloidheroreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/dog_day_afternoon.jpg

True! It's even more of an exception in that I love the famous screaming scene, then find the movie starts to drag halfway, when everybody's stopped screaming.

tsk tsk, DDA "dragging"!

I wonder what you think of the last 25 years of Pacino

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090827221735/uncyclopedia/images/8/8f/Pacinoshout.jpg http://www.dreamagic.com/vivianrose/devilsAdvocate.gif

An ordeal, most of the time.

Reverse Shot has retooled, and has a Scorsese symposium going -- NYU shorts, Boxcar Bertha, Who’s That Knocking at My Door etc:

http://reverseshot.com/symposiums/33/martin-scorsese-he-is-cinema

on "the best thing i've ever done"

http://reverseshot.com/archive/entry/1858/italianamerican

I wish I could see American Boy

thanks for those links, morbs; the piece on italianamerican is nice, & it's so endearing that he's as proud of it as he is. i really love that film, though can't quite make it as important as reichert does; that said, it does feel like an interesting precursor to some similar films that came a long while later. berliner's nobody's business, say. hey Οὖτις, american boy is on youtube. i always meant to watch it.

I saw a double-bill of American Boy and Italianamerican years ago. I wonder if there's any way to see this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1372718/

Nothing for sale on Amazon that I can see.

You can get half of it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8INAkGwEYhk

I thought at first it was complete--skip to the end and there are credits--but the clip runs 50 minutes, and IMDB has the full film listed at 104. I'll hold out in hopes of finding it.

"It is has been 15 years since the last true Scorsese film."

http://thequietus.com/articles/16528-bringing-out-the-dead-revisited

Happily, it's only been a dozen since the last true De Palma film.

I would respect that sentence more if it was followed by a conspiracy theory about Scorsese having a heart attack and being resurrected by a voodoo cult led by a shadowy figure known as Papa Leo, rather than someone's blinkered idea of what a Scorsese movie TRULY is.

That's the exact reason we haven't had a true Malick movie in 36 years!

i like this as an auteur theory endgame - now that we've established the cliches of the greats, what was the last movie a director did where they successfully displayed your favorite cliches of theirs (i.e. bringing out the dead being his last film where someone saunters through a ny hellscape to a boomer anthem)

Even now, viewing after viewing, Bringing Out The Dead, Mean Streets, really any of his seminal works have the unrelenting power to be mad and captivating and utterly impossible to watch without a dropped jaw and a sensation in the pit of your stomach that burns and broils long after you’ve finished watching.

kind of amazing he's had a long career after causing so much utterly impossible to avoid indigestion

I didn't like BOtD very much the one time I saw it, but it didn't have the Time to Make Real Dough vibe of everything since.

I posted bcz of the idea, not the prose, cuz tldnr. I knew croup wd take care of it cuz what else is he doin on Sunday morning?

1999 ... the year Fincher, PTA, Jonze, and Payne were born. The year Scorsese died.

I knew croup wd take care of it cuz what else is he doin on Sunday morning?

laundry, so thanks for the entertainment (both the article and the idea of "lol you had nothing better to do than read a link i posted" as a zing)

ok now that i've noticed when the link was posted i'm even more entertained by the zing

i did the laundry too btw

yeah cancer-induced insomnia is a bitch

well at least you weren't driven to read the article

happy i could do you the solid of telling you it's straight-outta-undergrad pomp

bye cunt

i will quit this motherfucking board before i play with you again, just so u know to make other plans

i'm sorry if i was glib. it's hard to know how to respond when someone tries to zing you for reading an article on a sunday morning, and then says "well i have cancer" when you note its far odder to post said article without reading it late on a saturday night.

honestly at this point i think you might want to quit the board, because it's unclear who here you would want engaging with an article you post

'bringing out the dead' is definitely unusual. it's probably closer to 'after hours' in some ways than any other scorsese film, just replacing the weird nyc nightlife aspects w/haunted sickly or dying or dead people all over the city being attended to. cage is really good here. arquette is alright. cliff curtis, mark anthony, sizemore, rhames, goodman, the emergency room doc...all great.

kinda agree with part of the premise of the piece, but i disagree on the assessment of the quality of scorsese's 21st century output. imo everything he's done since is either really remarkable or at the very least entertainingly crazy. out of those 'gangs of new york' is probably the closest to his heart and it's also in retrospect the weakest, but it's just a really admirable film in so many ways.

an article mourning the lack of a new york/schrader toned scorsese film since dead would make sense, if excised from the idiocy about what defines a "true" scorsese film

though even then the article would be a highbrow version of an imdb comment reading "gee i love joe pesci, when is he gonna make another movie with joe pesci".

“In addition to the (HBO) show he’s developing alongside Mick Jagger about the New York music scene in the ’70s, the director is also working on a prequel series to Shutter Island set in the early 20th century. And now Scorsese is teaming with Benicio Del Toro for Cortes, a series about the conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire.”

http://www.avclub.com/article/martin-scorsese-and-benicio-del-toro-are-developin-212026

Articles from early this year said he would be shooting Silence this fall; can't tell if that happened.

All I can find is that Andrew Garfield has a beard going, it's sposed to be released end of next year, and Howard Shore will compose...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/howard-shore-to-score-martin-scorseses-silence-and-more-soundtrack-news-20141106

More on the HBO series:

Despite the recent finales for series such as Boardwalk Empire, The Newsroom and True Blood, HBO appears to be building up its arsenal of promising hourlong dramas. After placing a series order for the Anthony Hopkins-starring Westworld a few weeks back, HBO has picked up an as-yet-untitled project with a musical slant. Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter is teaming up with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and Boardwalk producer Martin Scorsese to bring a rock ‘n’ roll-based drama to the premium channel. Bobby Cannavale will star as Richie Finestra, a record label exec in the drug- and sex-fueled music scene of 1970’s New York who always has his ear to the ground in pursuit of the next big sound. The cast is also set to include Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Juno Temple and Mick’s son Andrew Jagger, among others.

The series, which was created by Winter and has been in development since 2010, will be executive produced by Scorsese and Jagger alongside Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Breaking Bad’s George Mastras.

so sounds like approach will be Almost Famous-style fictionalized musicians

This'll be playing here next month; looks great. (I'd just as soon he abandon narrative altogether.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3510820/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6

that looks like a documentary narrative to me

also the New Republic became shit at least 35 years ago

I thought The 50 Year Argument was just okay, and not as good as Arguing the World from 1998. Scorsese seemed more interested in the venerability of the New York Review of Books than the personalities and skirmishes that made it famous. You got a little of that in the Mailer section, but I'd already seen the Dick Cavett footage in the Vidal documentary. I drifted a bit during the Vietnam section, so maybe I missed something good there.

new doc iced by Clinton goodfellas

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-martin-scorsese-documentary-bill-clinton-stalled-20150123-story.html