MOVIE GUIDE: Mr. Scorsese (2025)
This time is not about technical jargon, specific settings, or cameras. This time is about creation — about the process, the ideas. The genesis. This time is about Mr. Scorsese. Arguably one of the greatest filmmakers alive, Martin Scorsese has not only given us some of the most memorable films of the last 50 years, but he is also a deeply flawed man — the son of Italian immigrants who was never supposed to be a film director, but a priest. A music lover, a compulsive editor, a tireless worker who never quite fit into Hollywood glamour, Scorsese found his home in his beloved New York.
In “Mr. Scorsese”, a five-part documentary series, director Rebecca Miller gives us an expansive portrait of this brilliant man with an unstoppable mind — the tormented creator who has seen failures explode in his face, the auteur who had to wait almost 40 years to be properly recognized by his peers at the Academy. As the great François Truffaut once said:
“What is a director? Someone who’s asked questions about everything. Sometimes he has answers, but not always.”
Martin Scorsese keeps asking questions — about morality, about God, about good and evil, about our (his) own existence. All his films are filled with those conundrums.
Does he have the answers? Maybe not. Do we? Probably not.
But in the end, we have a remarkable career. We have the images, the sounds, the famous quotes. We have his legacy.
“…Are you talking to me…”
“…On every film you suffer, but on some you REALLY suffer…”
Martin Scorsese”
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