THE IRISHMAN, A Martin Scorsese Picture with de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel

That'll mean a Lightbox opening in Toronto (where Roma screened)...I guess "indie" is anything that's not Cineplex, but it's hard for me to think of the Lightbox (home to TIFF) as an indie--they're about as un-indie as it gets in terms of corporate sponsorship.

this is 210 minutes long

lol wow

I’m pretty interested in the mob history they’re obviously going to touch on particularly w/r/t Angelo Bruno (since he’s played by Keitel I assume it will be a major part of the story). Also part of the film will include Crazy Joe Gallo, referenced briefly in a Goodfellas voice-over :

It was a glorious time. And wiseguys were all over the place. It was before Apalachin and before Crazy Joe decided to take on a boss and start a war.

Number None at 7:21 27 Aug 19

this is 210 minutes long

so Avengers length

Or the length of a studio comedy nowadays

(Ok that's an exaggeration)

Jesus Christ lmfao @ 210 minutes

MARTY

Once Upon a Time on Netflix

40-something minutes of it is just the guys kicking back and listening to Let It Bleed.

Gun, meet mouth

I know some of u motherfuckers watched the 70" of Hateful Eight

can you imagine the noise from a camera running six-foot-wide film? they would have had to shoot from the next state over

Jesus Christ lmfao @ 210 minutes

really, given all the megalong comic-book shitburgers huh

Yea the 4.5 hour long "Once Upon a Time in Asgard" was kinda pretentious

right? I'm here for 210 minutes by Marty

can you imagine the noise from a camera running six-foot-wide film? they would have had to shoot from the next state over

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:46 PM bookmarkflaglink

At least my Stonehenge was big enough!

:)

oops I xposted this and then left the building for 5.5 hours without noticing

it’s not good at all, it’s insulting

Yep. Roma probably would have had better first-weekend streaming numbers with 3 months word-of-mouth and Oscar nominations.

Right now would be a perfect time to bring in the French 90-day window just for PR purposes, as Disney is choking theatres with their requirements & restrictions, and Netflix doesn't need to curry favour with them in order to get a year of Pixar's third-last release or w/e

best of all, 2 films in a row w/out DiCaprio

right? I'm here for 210 minutes by Marty

So am I, his last two were fantastic, I'm just... stunned whenever I see that number.

I know some of u motherfuckers watched the 70" of Hateful Eight

Well yeah, but Tarantino at least put in an intermission. But I'm also apprehensive of that runtime. If Scorsese is going to work with Netflix, he might as well have made it a miniseries.

sometimes movies are long. not everything needs to get chopped up into bits.

I saw a 13.5-hour film this month, clowns

I knew you were holding out for the four-hour cut of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Morbs

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was only 200 minutes, tho it felt like 800

It has it that Hoffa was cremated in Michigan the same day by a friendly funeral director, which is the only thing that ever made sense. https://t.co/tL2ZEEoeMo

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 28, 2019

Meh.

40-something minutes of it is just the guys kicking back and listening to Let It Bleed.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

irl lol

210 minutes makes me depressed more so because this is a huge movie that will (hopefully) look and feel great on a big screen... in multiplexes... around the world..............
not fuckin Netflix!
because 210 minutes guarantees people are going to watch this non-sequentially

am going to see this in the theatre and i don't really care if other people watch it in segments on their laptop

I wonder if Netflix ever raised the idea of breaking it up into a limited series

xp I would've been really bummed if WOWS, a great audience movie, was a Netflix thing. and if you're not in a major city, who knows if this thing will play anywhere near?

it’s not good at all, it’s insulting, 3 weeks is nothing.

turns out it's going to be less than three weeks except in NYC and LA

In an alternative universe, Harvey Weinstein is shaving 75 minutes off of it.

Just saw @TheIrishmanFilm. Lovvvved. De Niro is a tour de force. Chemistry with Pesci and Pacino is magical. Everything you want in a Scorsese film and more. Debuting trailer tonight LIVE with Bobby D. #FallonLive

— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) September 25, 2019

Well I know all I need to know.

He doesn't just give those compliments out yo

guessing Fallonface wasnt wild for Silence

if he shits these out so he can get the money together to make more films like Silence then godspeed imo

well, he wanted to make this for 10+ years, he says

Looking forward to “Gimme Shelter” with you ibstruments tonight.

heh *toy instruments*

THE IRISHMAN is good! takes 90 minutes to lock in & clear out the cobwebs / adjust to CGI, but the scope is a virtue, the performances are killer (Joseph! Frank! Pesci!) & it eventually coheres into a heart-stopping meditation on the myopia of time. an old man movie for the ages.

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 27, 2019

THE IRISHMAN finds its own signature—as a study of haunted men and broken loyalty—a little too late (well after two hours). Until then, it’s a slab of Scorsese’s core actors reminding you of older movies. But many of these conversations are electrifying.

— Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf) September 27, 2019

Cool, a movie that doesn't really get going until it's two hours in. Neat.

"adjust to the CGI" = bad news

the CGI in this needed to be legitimately amazing because anything less is just a Polar Express/Avatar joke

those tweets make it sound like The Aviator

Scorsese knows what his audience is hoping for: glory days, resurrected. But he also understands the impossibility of anyone being exactly as they once were. So he weaves that longing into both The Irishman‘s text and its technique, presenting Sheeran’s youthful recollections … as augmented hoodlum reveries that will soon catch up with the character’s spiritually impoverished present.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-the-irishman-is-shrouded-in-an-alluringly-funereal-aura/

the more nuanced reviews of this have me more excited to see it. i'm ok with CGI, the trailers look okay as far as that goes. having just seen Samuel L Jackson w/25 years shaved off for Captain Marvel, i think it can work well.

Was too caught up in figuring out the maybe-cg-maybe-not-cg faces in the trailer that I barely got a sense of the plot. But sorta real, sorta unreal cg a la Fincher is its own aesthetic that I actually kind of enjoy?

Anyway Scorsese is (miraculously, judging against contemporaries) still capable of surprising and doing good shit so I’ve got hopes.

The CGI in Silence was really poor.