Best Martin Scorsese movie

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

my comedian friend has a role in VINYL, which is funny cuz he grew up a largely rock-free kid.

“Martin Scorsese has extended his overall feature deal with Paramount Pictures through 2019.” According to the Hollywood Reporter‘s Pamela McClintock, this means he’s signed on to direct a Leonard Bernstein biopic, an adaptation of The Devil in the White City with Leonardo DiCaprio and The Irishman, which’ll feature Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorsese-renews-deal-paramount-835026

"Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in." - Joe Pesci, from The Godfather Part 3 (dir. Martin Scorsese)

at least Leo can't play Lenny B (tempting fate)

I really wish him and Sweaty Bigface would break up

clive owen would make a solid lenny b

hmmm, worth considering...if it's the LB early years, maybe JoGo?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Leonard_Bernstein_-_1950s.JPG/220px-Leonard_Bernstein_-_1950s.JPG

whoa

http://lindaeder.com/voice_archive/voice_summer05/voice_images_summer05/LB_young_shot.jpg

hmm maybe jon bernthal, he worked with marty before too

we need a star, people

i assume 1945-60 would be the timeline, or some chunk of that... marty likes that era and lenny was on fire

NY, London retros

With Silence opening on December 23 and the first reviews now coming in, Martin Scorsese, an exhibition exploring his “remarkable half-century of filmmaking within the context of his personal history and his love of cinema,” has opened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. It’ll be there through April 23, and naturally, it’ll be accompanied by “a comprehensive retrospective of the director’s work, with the best available film prints and restored versions of his films, supplemented with personal appearances.” The first part of that retrospective, Martin Scorsese in the 21st Century, runs from December 16 through 30.

On January 1, the day Silence opens in the UK, a two-month-long Martin Scorsese season opens at BFI Southbank in London. The sidebars are plentiful. Martin Scorsese curates presents the man’s hand-picked selections from the over 750 films that the Film Foundation (set up in 1990 by Scorsese and several other leading filmmakers) has had a hand in restoring, including Jean Renoir‘s The River (1951), Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil (1948) and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s The Red Shoes (1948). There’ll be a course, Martin Scorsese’s Films and Influences, taught on ten consecutive Wednesdays. On January 26, Ian Christie will talk about “Scorsese as Cinema Historian.” And there’ll be special screenings, such as Taxi Driver (1976) on January 6 with Bernard Herrmann’s score performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/martin-scorsese

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2016/12/11/detail/martin-scorsese/

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=scorsese&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

you seen Silence yet, morbs?

nope! along w/ everyone else here at month's end when it opens, i suspect.

I went to the MOMI exhibit, and not having read a lot about it was surprised to see, along with De Niro's hack license and boxing gloves, and Raging Bull and Taxi Driver storyboards (and 11yo Marty's crayoned imagined Roman-epic credits), the bouquet from Vertigo and slippers from The Red Shoes.

(also his family's kitchen table)

“In a sign of the ongoing power shift in Hollywood, Martin Scorsese’s $100-million gangster movie The Irishman, his ninth starring Robert De Niro, has been scooped up by Netflix,” reports Anne Thompson. “Steve Zaillian adapted The Irishman screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book, I Heard You Paint Houses, which details the life of Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran, a mob hitman whose illustrious career is today best known for a supposed involvement in the death of Jimmy Hoffa.....

In “The Irishman,” De Niro will be made to look 30 again by the effects masters at ILM, “Benjamin-Button”-style. His “Heat” co-star Al Pacino and other talent are still in negotiations. One possible boon for Scorsese: at Netflix, there will be no strictures on length."

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/02/martin-scorsese-the-irishman-robert-deniro-netflix-paramount-1201785658/

https://68.media.tumblr.com/842ce6c7d9219519927ab6278c5cf32f/tumblr_n5ox688qSZ1smsmqro1_500.gif

this sounds like a horrible idea

it's weird that anyone would think the only difference between a 70yo man and a 30yo man is *how they look* and not, like, how they move or speak or anything else

why do you think they'd think that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONkAEMduSc

Not sure of the exact formula (vectors and prime numbers are involved), but the Scorsese Curse--Frank Vincent, Chuck Low, Jerry Lewis, and Jake LaMotta within two months of each other--is now officially more lethal than the Wizard of Oz curse.

I don't want to watch a Scorcese movie on fucking Netflix

FInally watched The King of Comedy and, indeed, it's the only movie that would've given me something to think about against Taxi Driver.

I still need to follow up on my first, baffled viewing from when I was 13. I suspect I'll love it now; neither Raging Bull nor The Age of Innocence did anything for me until i gave them fresh viewings as an adult.

yay Eric

a Curse when guys between 75 and 95 start dying

I mentioned vectors and prime numbers, and compared it to the Wizard of Oz curse, where people between, what, 90 and 150 started dying. So it's good that you clarified no such Scorsese curse actually exists.

you're welcome

An unexpected admission from the maestro pic.twitter.com/XI9yYhByrS

— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) October 16, 2017

lol

I love Goodfellas, but it goes waaaay too far with the voice-over narration (Casino is even worse). Scorsese is at his best as a visual storyteller — Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, even After Hours. So yeah, good film but also one of his most overrated.

It's hard not to have voiceover in a biographical drama covering 30 years, so i disagree. You wouldn't be able to dramatize all that stuff about how the crew operates; plus there's tons going on visually while we're listening to Henry.

Hadn't read Pauline Kael's takedown of KoC until after I finally watched it.

https://letterboxd.com/notpaulinekael/film/the-king-of-comedy/1/

xp

plus the juxtapositions between Henry's narrative and the events as portrayed on screen work ironically

i should maybe say, a bio-drama where you're meant to relate so closely to the protagonist's POV

yeah, i thought Kael was wrong in '83... still do, but i admit i'm a little puzzled about why he has Diahnne Abbott filch something from Jerry's house. Everybody needs a piece of success?

xxp

the GoodFellas narration is great. The Casino one as well. i think it's much easier to hate the movies that try to ape that style, because they don't have the humor or intelligence or snap of those two films. i like the misdirection, especially in GF. Henry narrating how he managed to save Morrie's life right before Morrie goes for a very short car ride with Tommy DeVito and Frankie Carbone, etc. which also shows Henry being taken out of the loop and foreshadows the danger he'll find himself in later.

that tKoC passage about Jerry Lewis is probably the most praise Kael ever ladled on him, by far.

Nomar: Agreed on the Morrie scene. That was brilliant, although it confused the hell out of me the first time I saw the film. "Wait, didn't he just say Morrie was going to be safe?"

Yeah, I almost wish more of the movie focused on Langford, if only for more of these moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjaKdtYbTto

my fave Jerry moment might be "You've got a blank card..."