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

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.

Good chat between MS and QT:

https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1904-Fall-2019/Conversation-Scorsese-Tarantino.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0XVAgPO3Ls8n8hdGknmGN7TwmW0BmA_wQ0h8krzZldnUX6j7xq5mpnpCk

Thanks for that

Great interview, thanks!

yeah thx for posting that was great (even if I only understood like half of it)

koresky's take

http://www.reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2590/irishman

initial roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6612-martin-scorsese-s-the-irishman

All my favorites. I'm cautiously optimistic.

I'm not.

What fire and music?

we know Pacino can't match Scarface, Eric

(ptui)

Pacino being in Scarface automatically makes it De Palma's worst movie.

you pass over Carlito's Way?

just a kazoo with some sparkles

Bookmark this great piece from @BilgeEbiri and read it **after** you see “The Irishman”. https://t.co/FmQgtrF5LB

— Todd "Your Shot is Targeted for Today" Vaziri (@tvaziri) September 30, 2019

fuck that, i'm gonna read it now and no-one can stop me

Spoiler: people die in this movie

whoa

A friend of mine just referred to them as The Italian Beatles. pic.twitter.com/mhv8ezjNnb

— Sean Burns (@SeanMBurns) September 27, 2019

Gian, Paolo, Giorgio, and Reengo

Who is Pete Best

surely John Cazale

FREDOOOOO

people losing their minds over Scorsese saying Marvel movies are "not cinema"

if anyone has the right to say what is and what isn't cinema it's Scorsese

you could chuck all of his own films out and he'd still be one of the most important film preservationists in history

Scorsese otm for the most part

I still crack up sometimes about Scorsese's essay for the millennium issue of Rolling Stones where he talks about industry people telling him "he should check out The Waterboy!".

they're more like a marketing exercise

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