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      ‘He was always voraciously watching’: Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 08:11 · 1 minute

    The Oscar-winning director has donated over 50 storage boxes of tapes that show a devoted interest in recording films and shows from the '80s to the 2000s

    In the basement of the University of Colorado Boulder’s main library, an 85-year-old stone fortress built in the Italian rural style, the archives of the school’s Rare and Distinctive Collections occupy rows of shelves as far as the eye can see. Here, amid yellowed books, historical maps and medieval manuscripts, Martin Scorsese has quietly made public a very private preoccupation. More than 50 storage boxes hold thousands of VHS tapes that contain films and television programs Scorsese recorded directly from broadcast television. The renowned director and film preservationist, it turns out, was also, for decades, a prolific guerrilla archivist.

    Long before YouTube and Netflix gave the world instant access to a deep repository of media, Scorsese began the project of amassing his own private on-demand video library. In each week’s TV Guide, he would note the movies and shows that caught his interest. A full-time video archivist in Scorsese’s New York office would then record the telecasts from a kind of audiovisual hub made up of multiple VCRs and monitors, which could often be active at all hours. The tapes were meticulously labeled, cataloged initially using a library-like card system and later a computer, and filed away for Scorsese’s personal viewing and research.

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      After Hours review – Martin Scorsese’s 1980s shaggy-dog story is a peculiar, potent film

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 11:00 · 1 minute

    Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette’s night of farce and coincidence is a tale in which strangeness and anxiety loom large, leading to a woozy punchline

    Martin Scorsese’s 1985 screwball noir is now on rerelease. It felt at the time – and feels now – like an atypical Scorsese movie, a more generic and less auteurist project he accepted from its producer-star Griffin Dunne while progress on his Last Temptation of Christ had temporarily stalled. Maybe he thought of it as “road work”, but time has lent interest to After Hours; the obviously comic and farcical aspect has receded and its strangeness and anxiety loom larger, in a string of unsexy encounters and chilling coincidences culminating in a desolate close-dance scene to the accompaniment of Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? It’s a shaggy dog story leading to a punchline, of sorts, but one that feels woozy and illusory; it is not like a nightmare exactly, but a strange dream that’s difficult to shake on waking.

    It is certainly a very 1980s piece of work, and at the time was regarded as part of the “yuppie disaster” genre, about well-off and conceited white-collar New Yorkers in the Reagan bull market years being punished for their smugness by winding up catastrophically in the wrong part of town. After Hours was bracketed with Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild from 1986, and Tom Wolfe’s 1987 page-turner The Bonfire of the Vanities which was dismally filmed by Brian De Palma in 1990.

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      Why Killers of the Flower Moon should win the best picture Oscar

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 08:00 · 1 minute

    Martin Scorsese has made the ultimate western, showing the racism, greed and corruption on which America was really founded. It’s a world-changing work

    Ever since he started making films, 60-odd years ago, Martin Scorsese has always wanted to make a western; instead, he may have killed the genre. And that’s no small thing for this most American of forms. Over the past century, westerns have cemented the founding myths of American identity; how white settlers subjugated and massacred the continent’s indigenous population and tamed the wild west, with God and guns (and cinema) on their side. So it takes guts to unpick that mythology with a true story of just how evil and racist white Americans really were – especially in a political climate where such histories are being actively suppressed in the US. We’ve had plenty of “revisionist” westerns in recent years; you could call this a destructionist western. It cuts to the dark heart of colonialist greed and capitalist corruption on which America was really founded. In terms of revolutionary cinema, nothing else in this year’s Oscar crop can compete.

    For the uninitiated, the setting is 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil on their land made the Osage Nation the richest people on the planet. The fact that they were required by law to have white guardians to help them manage their wealth is just the beginning of the injustice heaped upon them here. Robert De Niro ’s two-faced patriarch William “King” Hale, hatches a plan for his dim nephew Ernest ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) to marry Osage heiress Mollie ( Lily Gladstone ), then systematically bump off her family and seize her oil rights – aided by pretty much the entire white community. Blinded by love, and wealth, Mollie and her people take far too long to figure out what’s really going on.

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      ‘Sin is fun!’ Martin Scorsese on brutality, love – and his rebirth on TikTok

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 12 February - 05:00

    At 81, the great film director suddenly has a second career as a social media star. He talks about working with his daughter, the Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon and his journey from the mean streets of 1940s New York

    I have been talking to Martin Scorsese for two minutes and apparently the interview is already over. We’re discussing his most recent movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, which has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including a record 10th best director nomination for Scorsese. But he has been promoting the film since last April, he says. “For the most part, the reaction to the film is beyond encouraging. It’s very, very appreciated. However, I think I want to get back to making something as soon as possible. Like now. Right now. Today.”

    Then he makes to get up from his chair and walk off. “Yes, right now. I’m going to leave right now.”

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      Martin Scorsese donne des détails sur son prochain film

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 9 January - 16:00

    Martin Scorsese Film Jesus Prochain Projet

    Le réalisateur a répondu à "l'appel du pape aux artistes" et prépare un film sur Jésus à l'époque contemporaine.
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      ‘A recipe for blandness’: critic Peter Biskind on why quality television is in chronic decline

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 12 November - 12:00

    The author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls has turned his gaze from Hollywood to prestige television, arguing that a golden age of TV that began with The Sopranos has been ruined by corporate greed

    On 10 January 1999, the first episode of a drama about a New Jersey gangster with panic attacks debuted on the US cable channel HBO. The Sopranos ran for six seasons, the final episode being broadcast on 10 June 2007. Across eight years and 86 episodes it came to represent a golden age of TV, when moral complexity, deep characterisation and unprecedented authenticity were common features of a bold new form of televisual storytelling.

    It’s this “peak era” that Peter Biskind, the cultural critic and film historian, both celebrates and to some extent mourns in his new book, Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television . Biskind is best known for his eye-opening account of US cinema’s own peak era of the late 1960s and 70s: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls . That book became a word-of-mouth hit, partly for its wealth of lurid anecdotes about Hollywood figures, featuring epic misbehaviour with all the sex-and-drugs trappings of starry success.

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      Killers of the Flower Moon : 3 bonnes raisons d’aller voir le nouveau Scorsese

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 18 October - 17:31

    lily-glastone-killers-of-the-flower-moon-158x105.jpg Lily Gladstone, révélation de ce nouveau film

    Ce mercredi 18 octobre, Martin Scorsese signe son retour au cinéma. Killers of the Flower Moon est sans conteste le film à ne pas manquer cette semaine.

    Killers of the Flower Moon : 3 bonnes raisons d’aller voir le nouveau Scorsese

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      Martin Scorsese répond aux critiques sur la longueur de son prochain film

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 11 October - 13:00

    killers-of-flower-moon-martin-scorsese-158x105.jpg Killers of the Flower Moon avec Martin Scorsese

    Martin Scorsese invite les spectateurs à avoir autant de respect pour le cinéma qu'ils en ont pour la télévision ou le théâtre.

    Martin Scorsese répond aux critiques sur la longueur de son prochain film

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      Pour Martin Scorsese, il faut “sauver le cinéma” des films de super-héros

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 27 September, 2023 - 15:00

    martin-scorsese-films-super-heros-158x105.jpg Martin Scorsese se bat encore contre les films de super-héros

    Martin Scorsese s'est encore fendu d'une critique à l'égard des films de super-héros.

    Pour Martin Scorsese, il faut “sauver le cinéma” des films de super-héros