Film 2020

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Space movies will never be this realistic

“I said, ‘This is what it comes to?’” Scorsese recalled. “To squeeze us in a little plot of land in Queens somewhere, against this ugly, destructive backdrop? It was a shock and an awakening — an awakening to what, I’m not sure, but a change.”

An eye for macabre details and an unflinching willingness to depict them have served Scorsese well, but somewhere around the making of his Vegas mob saga “Casino” (1995) — particularly the scene in which Joe Pesci’s character is beaten to death and buried in a cornfield — the director began to wonder if he had pushed this skill set to its limit. “I said I can’t go any further with it,” he recounted.

Over the next two decades, he largely avoided projects in the crime-drama genre. (An exception was “The Departed,” for which he finally won an Academy Award.) But whatever the subject matter, Scorsese said he felt drained by these films, usually near their conclusions, when he inevitably found himself butting heads with studio executives who wanted the running times shortened.

“The last two weeks of editing and mixing ‘The Aviator,’” a coproduction that included Warner Bros. and Miramax, among others, “I had left the business from the stress,” he recalled. “I said if this is the way you have to make films then I’m not going to do it anymore.”

He did not quit, of course, but he has increasingly turned to independent financiers to back his projects, believing that he and the studio system had become mortal enemies. “It’s like being in a bunker and you’re firing out in all directions,” he said. “You begin to realize you’re not speaking the same language anymore, so you can’t make pictures anymore.”

When De Niro approached him with the source material for “The Irishman,” in the midst of work on another potential Paramount film they would ultimately walk away from, Scorsese did not necessarily see it as an opportunity to make a grand pronouncement on his body of work or the mafia milieu. “I saw it as a danger,” he said, fearing that it would be dismissed as yet another mob drama on his résumé.

In ways both subtle and substantial, Scorsese sees the world changing and becoming less familiar to him. He gratefully accepted a deal with Netflix, which covered the reported $160 million budget for “The Irishman.” But the bargain meant that, after the movie received a limited theatrical release, it would be shown on the company’s streaming platform.

That means some viewers are watching the three-and-a-half hour movie incrementally, instead of in one sitting, as its director would prefer. But Scorsese said he’d rather the film be available somewhere, in some form, than nowhere. “Even if it’s going to be shown on a street corner, maybe someday it’ll be shown in a theater as part of a retrospective,” he said. “I really thought that.”

By JesalR Go To PostJust finished the Irishman, fuck me was that bloated

By bud Go To Postwas willing to give hereditary my blessing because for a horror movie, it was quite alright.

but then the last ten minutes or so happened.

blessing revoked.

By FortuneFaded Go To PostIs that a parody account?

By Laboured Go To PostFor mischief’s sake what was the last Oscar best film winner that you actually agreed with?

By Laboured Go To PostFor mischief’s sake what was the last Oscar best film winner that you actually agreed with?

By Laboured Go To PostFor mischief’s sake what was the last Oscar best film winner that you actually agreed with?

By n8 dogg Go To PostMoonlight. Really liked Shape of Water too, and 12 Years a Slave (even if they werent best of their year)

Spotlight and Birdman decent, everything else this decade trash. So mixed bag!

By n8 dogg Go To PostMoonlight. Really liked Shape of Water too, and 12 Years a Slave (even if they werent best of their year)

Spotlight and Birdman decent, everything else this decade trash. So mixed bag!

By FortuneFaded Go To PostArrival, Silence, Hacksaw Ridge, Manchester By The Sea, a few others > Moonlight

By FortuneFaded Go To PostSilence

By Laboured Go To PostWtf

By RrusheR Go To PostGemini Man. Man you gotta see it to believe it. The future of TV movies.