In late 2018, when Howard Stern asked Jonah Hill about working with Martin Scorsese on "The Wolf of Wall Street," Hill was effusive in his praise of …
Editing The Departed Was Like Wrangling Wild Horses For Martin Scorsese
By the time it came time to film 2006's "The Departed," Scorsese had been around long enough — his filmography stretches all the way back to the '70s — to know what he wanted and how to make it happen. And as some unprecedented behind-the-scenes footage shows, the director approached his Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon-led crime thriller drama with a cool equanimity, demonstrating with every calmly uttered direction an easy command of his craft.
Now, picture this: Martin Scorsese, the 79-year-old director of tame, not at all shocking or violence-filled movies like "Goodfellas," or "Taxi …
Unless you're lucky enough to escape the constant cycle of discourse, you're probably aware that a lot of cinephiles are really concerned about the …
Martin Scorsese sat with the material much longer. He had been trying to make the film for nearly 30 years. Scorsese seems like the kind of person who values artistic success more than financial ones, in which case I hope he is thrilled as I am with how his decades-long passion project turned out. But how did it take Scorsese, one of our most venerated filmmakers, this long to get "Silence" on screen?
Early in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film "Casino," we are introduced to one of the most troubling, electric characters in the filmmaker's body of work. Ginger (Sharon Stone) is winning big, drawing the attention of fastidious casino boss Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro).