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"Actor" might not be the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Martin Scorsese. However, the award-winning filmmaker has recently begun to take on more acting roles and a first look at his next one has just been revealed.

DiscussingFilm has shared on X an image of Scorsese from the upcoming drama film, In the Hand of Dante, an adaptation of Nick Tosches' 2002 novel of the same name. The filmmaker looks unrecognizable in his role as Dante Alighieri's mentor, sporting long gray hair and a thick, bushy beard. A lot of the replies on the social media post have pointed out that Scorsese looks unmistakably like Dumbledore from Harry Potter or Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings, both of whom also sport gray hair and a long beard.

First look at Martin Scorsese in Julian Schnabel’s ‘In The Hand Of DANTE’Also starring Oscar Isaac,...

Martin Scorsese is known around the world for making some of the most iconic gangster movies ever, but when it comes to films he enjoys, he’s not just looking at American crime stories. In fact, he’s a big fan of British gangster films too.

Most people know Scorsese from hits like Mean Streets and Goodfellas, which brought a raw and personal touch to mafia stories. He has a real gift for exploring the lives and emotions of complex characters, even in long and intense stories.

Goodfellas is over two hours long, but every character feels real and important. That’s part of what makes his work stand out.

Related: Leonardo DiCaprio Attached To Star in Scorsese’s Adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Winning Novel ‘Home’

Scorsese has always had a deep love for the gangster genre. But his interest goes beyond the New York mob. In a...

Martin Scorsese is finally getting in front of the camera to bare all. The iconic auteur will be at the center of five-part documentary “Mr. Scorsese,” helmed by “She Came to Me” filmmaker Rebecca Miller. Billed as a “film portrait,” the feature will include never-before-seen interviews with Scorsese’s friends, family, and creative collaborators including Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, and Cate Blanchett. Scorsese’s private archives will also be displayed onscreen.

“I am so grateful to have been given the artistic freedom and access to create a cinematic portrait of one of our greatest living artists, Martin Scorsese,” director Miller said. “His work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five year period; crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has...

It's official: Dwayne Johnson and Martin Scorsese are making a movie together. The fan-favorite actor has confirmed that he will appear in the Oscar-winning director's upcoming mafia movie, described as Goodfellas meets The Departed.

On X, Johnson shared a screenshot of the Deadline report about the forthcoming collaboration, which will also star Scorsese regular Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnson's Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt, alongside the following statement: "Grateful for what’s been the most creatively inspiring time of my career - working closely with my friends and of course, the maestro Marty Scorsese. In the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s the mafia controlled New York, Miami, Chicago, Vegas, and a particularly strong hold on the island I was raised - Hawaii. Much more to come. Aloha nui loa."

Grateful for what’s been the most creatively inspiring time of my career - working closely with my friends and of course, the maestro Marty Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese and Apple are reportedly adapting the Gilead novels with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. The legendary director teamed up with Apple for his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which starred DiCaprio in the lead role and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Since its release in October 2023, the 82-year-old director has floated many options for his next film, including multiple projects that would reunite him with one of his most frequent collaborators, DiCaprio.

Now, another project has been added to that list. Per Publishers Weekly, Apple Original Films has reportedly struck a deal to develop Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels with Martin Scorsese attached to write, direct, and produce, and Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star, starting with Home, the second of four novels in the series. There are no details on the plans to adapt the remaining novels. The six-time Oscar-nominated...

Well, Hollywood’s favorite duo, the filmmaker Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, are once again teaming up, and cinephiles everywhere are buzzing with anticipation. With six widely successful and critically revered collaborations and another on the way, the duo will once again collaborate, with details promising their latest to be nothing short of ‘absolute cinema.’

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Although the duo are yet to speak about their latest collab, fans have already taken to social media, expressing excitement over the project. Given the film’s potential premise and the history of their collaboration, there is a possibility it might end up at the Oscars.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are to reunite once again for a potential banger Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have worked together in 6 feature films | Credit: The Wolf of Wall Street / Paramount Pictures

One of the...

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Apple Original Films again after “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His next project is “Home,” based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson. Scorsese will write, direct, and produce the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio, a frequent collaborator, will star in it. This marks their seventh film together, following hits like “The Departed” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

The story comes from Robinson’s Gilead series, set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa. It explores themes of faith and rural life. “Home” focuses on a family dealing with tough pasts. Glory Boughton returns to care for her dying father, a reverend.

Her brother Jack, the family’s troubled son, also comes back after 20 years away. Jack struggles with alcohol and a difficult history but remains his father’s favorite. The novel shows Jack trying to reconnect with his sister Glory and facing tension with his traditionalist father and godfather,...

While it’s been very difficult of late to figure out what Martin Scorsese will follow Killers of the Flower Moon (already a couple years out from its Cannes premiere), today brings some of the closest confirmation of where he’ll head next. Surprise: Leonardo DiCaprio is coming with.

Per Publisher’s Weekly, Apple Original Films have obtained rights to Marilynne Robinson’s four Gilead novels, the second of which, Home, Scorsese has discussed since 2023. DiCaprio will lead the film, produced by Todd Field, who’s co-written Home with Scorsese and Kent Jones while said to be handling the first entry, Gilead, though the article notes an ambiguity around “plans to adapt the remaining books in the series.”

The news suggests DiCaprio would play Jack Boughton, a wayward alcholic who returns to his hometown of Gilead to take care of a dying father alongside his sister Glory. These roles recur in Robinson’s other books,...

Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been mulling over a bunch of potential next movie projects since finishing up “Killers of The Flower Moon”, and the latest one, “Home,” is set to see him reunite with his modern muse, Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”).

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A new crime movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt has sparked a fierce bidding war among major studios. The project, set in Hawaii during the ‘60s and ‘70s, follows an ambitious mobster (played by Johnson) fighting for control of the island’s underworld.

Netflix, which previously backed Scorsese’s The Irishman, is currently the frontrunner to acquire the film, though Amazon, Apple, and Warner Bros. are also in the race. With a massive budget of around $200 million, the project is likely to go to the highest bidder—something Scorsese typically prioritizes.

Netflix appears ready to outspend its competitors, even though it won’t offer a major theatrical release. Instead, the film is expected to get a short theatrical run, just enough for awards consideration, similar to The Irishman in 2019.

The screenplay is being written by journalist and filmmaker Nick Bilton, but production won’t start anytime soon.

Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller has addressed the rumors linking him to Martin Scorsese's delayed biblical epic. While attending the premiere of his latest movie, the horror thriller The Gorge, Teller was asked directly about the rumors, which suggest he's playing Jesus for the legendary filmmaker.

Last year, rumors circulated that Scorsese was considering Teller and Andrew Garfield to star in an upcoming project: an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō's 1973 novel A Life of Jesus. At the premiere of The Gorge, Teller denied that any talks had transpired between him and the acclaimed director. Speaking with Variety, Teller responded "Noooooooo," when asked if he was set to portray the biblical figure on-screen.

And while those talks have not taken place, that doesn't mean that Teller wouldn't be interested in working alongside the Taxi Driver director.

"Dude, when I read that, I was calling my agent, like, 'Did Marty Scorsese...

Martin Scorsese is renowned for making movies about larger-than-life characters with sky-high aspirations quickly rising to the top, before it all comes crashing down. He delivered that formula perfectly with two of his best and most lauded movies, Goodfellas and Raging Bull. However, what do you get when you mix that formula with Leonardo DiCaprio, a bunch of narcotics, the 1980s, and an average of 2.81 f-bombs per minute? The Wolf of Wall Street. If you want to witness Scorsese's incredible cautionary tale about greed and excess for the first time, then we've got good news, because it just landed a new streaming home.

The Wolf of Wall Street is now streaming on Paramount+. The film tells the real story of Jordan Belfort, a former Wall Street stock trader who started his own firm, Straton Oakmont, with a ridiculous commission rate and no moral limitations. Written by Terence Winter (who...

When we speak of the people who shaped cinema in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, it's impossible to avoid the names Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese. The duo's first collaboration, 1976's Taxi Driver, for which Scorsese directed Schrader's screenplay, became a critical and box office hit, but also helped shape the gritty antihero cinema of the era. The duo collaborated three more times on some of their most critically acclaimed films 1980's Raging Bull, 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ, and finally, 1999's Bringing Out the Dead.

MovieWeb sat down to speak with Schrader about his upcoming film, Oh, Canada. With Bringing Out the Dead celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, we asked if Schrader and Scorsese had any plans to work together again. Despite the duo's past working relationship and the fact that each of them has struggled to do their take on a Frank Sinatra biopic,...

Martin Scorsese has quite a few projects percolating at the moment. There's The Wager, based on the David Grann book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, with Leonardo DiCaprio expected to star. There's also a proposed Frank Sinatra biopic, and a film about the life of Jesus Christ the former of which may or may not still be in the works. And then there's Home, an adaptation of Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson's 2008 novel of the same name.

The director first spoke about the project in 2023, indicating at the time he'd written a script with Tr and In the Bedroom writer-director Todd Field, along with Kent Jones, the filmmaker behind Diane and Hitchcock/Truffaut. Scorsese mentioned Home again in a new interview with The Canadian Press in November 2024, saying there was a "very strong possibility" it would be his next film, but that a "scheduling issue" might prevent it from happening.

Hollywood is fickle, and projects often suddenly find themselves with heat and on the fast track, and then they dissipate. And sometimes Hollywood filmmakers are the same. Take filmmaker Martin Scorsese, for instance. In the last two years, he’s ping-ponged all over the place with projects he would make. For a minute there, “The Wager,” with Leonardo DiCaprio, looked like it was next. Then, his long-running Frank Sinatra film seemed to move forward when Jennifer Lawrence became attached alongside DiCaprio.

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Martin Scorsese teases multiple story ideas for his next movie as he approaches turning 82 years of age. From the 1970s to the present day, Scorsese is the director of movies such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street and, at 81 years old, he delivered one of the finest films of his career in Killers of the Flower Moon. Over the past year, Scorsese has been exploring several options for his next movie, including an adaptation of The Life of Jesus, a book by Shsaku End.

During a recent interview with the Associated Press discussing his new docudrama series, Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, the director teased multiple story ideas for his next movie. Asked if The Life of Jesus would be his next film, Scorsese said, "It's an option," and went on to tease two more ideas an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's Home...

With it now being three years since Killers of the Flower Moon wrapped and one year since its release, Martin Scorsese has been away from a proper film set for some time. As the director prepares for his 82nd birthday this weekend, he has once again confirmed plans for his next features.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Scorsese revealed that his Shūsaku Endō adaptation The Life of Jesus is now just “an option” as he’s “still working on it.” However, he added there’s a “very strong possibility of me doing a film version of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, but that’s a scheduling issue.” With a script by Todd Field, here’s the synopsis of the companion novel to Robinson’s Pulitzer-winner Gilead:

The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic...

Martin Scorsese may have put some previously announced projects like “The Wager” and his long-rumored Frank Sinatra biopic on the back burner, but the prolific auteur has teased another adaptation in the works: bringing Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Home” to the screen.

Scorsese told AP that while his “A Life of Jesus” film has been optioned, he is working around the “scheduling issue” of adapting Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robinson’s book.

“It’s an option but I’m still working on it,” Scorsese said of “A Life of Jesus,” adding, “There’s a very strong possibility of me doing a film version of Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home,’ but that’s a scheduling issue.”

“Home” is part of the Robinson’s Gilead-set series. The novel takes place in a remote fictional rural Iowan town in 1956, with a woman returning to her hometown to care for her ailing father. The novel is...

Martin Scorsese is one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, with several critically acclaimed films under his belt. Scorsese has also won an Academy Award and delivered multiple blockbusters over the years. The legendary filmmaker was recently honored with the prestigious Stella della Mole award at the Museum of Cinema in Turin.

Martin Scorsese directed 2002’s Gangs of New York (Credit: Team Coco | YouTube).

At a press event in Turin, Scorsese spoke about his lengthy career and dispelled rumors of his retirement. However, the filmmaker also commented on the current political landscape in the US, with the 2024 Presidential Elections in full swing. In the process, Scorsese compared the candidates to one of his most brutal characters, and here is what he had to say.

Martin Scorsese Talked About the Current Political Landscape in the US

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is the mind behind several critically acclaimed films such as Goodfellas,...

Martin Scorsese is 81 years old. But don't tell his IMDb page that. The director has five movies listed as "upcoming," including A Life Of Jesus and The Wager, an adaptation of the shipwreck best-seller by Flower Moon scribe David Grann. The list also features a Gangs Of New York TV series,...

Oprah Winfrey will host an eye-opening new special that explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence on people’s daily lives, demystifying the technology and empowering viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future.

The one-hour primetime event, AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special, airs Thursday, September 12 (8:00-9:03 p.m. Edt) on ABC. It will stream the next day on Hulu.

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The special features Winfrey’s exclusive interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in the field, including the following:

Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, will explain how AI works in layman’s terms and discuss the immense personal responsibility that must be borne by the executives of companies.

Microsoft Co-Founder and Chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates will lay out the AI revolution coming in science, health, and education and warns of...

Oprah Winfrey is taking a deep dive into AI with a new hourlong special AI and the Future of Us, set to air Thursday, September 12 at 8 p.m. on ABC and streaming next day on Hulu.

The special “provides a serious, entertaining and meaningful base for every viewer to understand AI, and empowers everyone to be a part of one of the most important global conversations of the 21st century,” according to the official logline.

The special will include interviews with Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft co-founder and chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates, YouTube creator and technologist Marques Brownlee, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of Center for Humane Technology, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson.

Altman “will explain how AI works in layman’s terms and discusses the immense personal responsibility that must be borne by the executives of AI companies. Gates...

Oprah Winfrey is delving into the realm of artificial intelligence.

Winfrey will host an ABC special titled AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special on Sept. 12, in which she’ll talk to some leading figures in the artificial-intelligence space, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI head Sam Altman, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray and a couple of skeptical voices.

The hourlong special is the second one Winfrey has hosted this year; in March, she led a discussion about weight loss and wellness tied to the rise of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy.

In addition to Gates, Altman and Wray, the special will feature interviews with technologist and widely followed YouTube tech reviewer Marcus Brownlee; Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology who warn of the risks of AI growing too powerful, too fast; and author Marilynne Robinson,...

Oprah Winfrey is set to host a primetime special for ABC that will tackle the use and impact that artificial intelligence has on people’s everyday lives.

The special, titled “AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special,” is set to air Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. Et and stream on Hulu the next day. The event will feature conversations with tech and media pundits like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, former Microsoft CEO and Gates Foundation chair Bill Gates, content creator Marques Brownlee and many more.

” ‘AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special’ provides a serious, entertaining and meaningful base for every viewer to understand AI and empowers everyone to be a part of one of the most important global conversations of the 21st century,” reads the log line.

“Altman will explain how AI works in layman’s terms and discusses the immense personal responsibility that...

Oprah Winfrey will sit down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for an exclusive interview as part of a new ABC primetime special, “AI and the Future of Us,” premiering Sept. 12 at 8 Et. The hour-long special will stream the next day on Hulu.

Meant to explore the impact artificial intelligence is having on people’s daily lives, demystify the technology and empower viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future, the interview will see Altman explain how it works in layman’s terms and discuss the immense personal responsibility borne by executives of AI companies.

Meanwhile, Microsoft co-founder and Gates Foundation chair Bill Gates will lay out the AI revolution in science, health and education and the once-in-a-century type of impact it could have on the job market.

Winfrey will also speak with YouTube creator and technologist Marques Brownlee, who will demonstrate AI’s capabilities, and Center for Humane...

On the heels of last year’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese has now added yet another project to his upcoming slate, one which will begin production first. Along with his Life of Jesus film, a Marilynne Robinson adaptation, a Frank Sinatra biopic, and an adaptation of David Grann’s The Wager, Scorsese will embark on a documentary about ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.

Variety reports the project will return Scorsese to his ancestral roots of Polizzi Generosa in Sicily, where his grandparents were born. Based on the studies of archaeologist Lisa Briggs, it will explore her research using “scientific tools including DNA analysis on artifacts recovered from ancient shipwreck sites, to reconstruct stories of ships, sailors, cargoes, and maritime trade in the ancient world.”

The Italian outlet Ansa confirmed the news and that preparation has already been underway for over a year. They include a...

Orders from the Pope make a Catholic work quick: right after Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Cannes premiere Martin Scorsese visited Pope Francis and, in his own words, “responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” In just eight months’ time it’s come to light, via an LA Times profile, that Scorsese penned a script with frequent collaborator Kent Jones, of many documentaries and forthcoming Marilynne Robinson adaptations, taking as source Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus, wherein the Silence author’s stated intent was “to make Jesus understandable in terms of the religious psychology of my non-Christian countrymen and thus to demonstrate that Jesus is not alien to their religious sensibilities.” Shooting is expected to commence this year.

If that sounds rather first-person, Scorsese and Jones haven’t...

Sin, forgiveness, the glamour of evil, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlon Brando, terrible preview screenings for “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro’s silence and, of course, “Killers of the Flower Moon” were all topics of conversation during Montclair Film Festival’s Filmmaker Tribute to Martin Scorsese on October 27 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

The director, who has received 14 Oscar nominations, was in the Garden State for the festival’s annual “An Evening With Stephen Colbert” fundraiser. Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the event, which is currently in its 12th year.

During their conversation, Scorsese told Colbert that Robert De Niro not only convinced him to make “Raging Bull,” which earned the director an Academy Award nomination, but also urged him to work with Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993 after the release of “This Boy’s Life.” The helmer also addressed De Niro’s notoriously tight-lipped demeanor.

“He just doesn’t say anything,...

Martin Scorsese, known for his impressive career in the film industry, is already planning his next project after the success of his latest film. In a humorous video shared on TikTok, Scorsese auditions his dog for a role in his upcoming movie, although it's clear that the video is a joke. Scorsese's next film will be based on the non-fiction book The Wager and will star Leonardo DiCaprio, who also stars in his current film Killers of the Flower Moon.

Killers of the Flower Moon has finally hit theaters, and while enjoying the success of his latest film, Martin Scorsese is already thinking about his next one. And it looks like it could include a very special actor as part of its cast.

It's been 64 years since Martin Scorsese first sat behind a camera. Since that moment, the director has given the world six short films, 16 documentaries, 17 series episodes and 27 films,...

After last year’s triumphant return of Todd Field after a 16-year absence behind the camera, all eyes have been on what the Tár director may do next. He teased a collaboration with Adam Sandler but also said his Cate Blanchett-led drama is “highly likely” his final film. Now, we have the most concrete news yet on what Field is currently developing, thanks to Martin Scorsese himself.

A few months ago the Killers of the Flower Moon director revealed he is developing an adaptation of Home, part of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novel series, also including Gilead, Lila, and Jack. While Scorsese recently confirmed The Wager is next on the docket, he’s now revealed rather ambitious plans for the Robinson adaptations, which includes Field.

“I’d like to try and make another picture if I can. I’d like to move on. Well, we’ve come up with a script on Home,...

We’re now just a few days away from the widest release of Martin Scorsese’s career as Killers of the Flower Moon is set to open in around 3,500 theaters in the United States from Paramount and Apple. With the SAG strike underway, the legendary director himself has led the promotional campaign, which means the publishing of several stellar interviews digging deeper into the process.

One of the most interesting bits to arrive about the production of his David Grann adaptation is that Scorsese drew inspiration from Ari Aster when it comes to the project. “I very much like the style and pacing of good horror films like Ari Aster’s Midsommar or Beau Is Afraid,” he told The Irish Times. “The pacing of those films goes back to the B films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People or I Walked With a Zombie.” While Scorsese’s admiration for Aster is well-documented,...

Scorsese's next film, after Killers of the Flower Moon, will be an adaptation of the non-fiction book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. The Wager focuses on a British ship crew's journey for treasure, their subsequent stranding on a desert island, and the dramatic events that unfold upon their return. Leonardo DiCaprio will join the cast. Martin Scorsese, despite his age and impressive contributions to the film industry, has no plans to retire and intends to continue making movies.

With the release of Killers of the Flower Moon just around the corner, Martin Scorsese already has everything ready to start working on his next big project, The Wager. Four years after the release of The Irishman, Scorsese is preparing for the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, his new film co-produced by Apple TV and Paramount Pictures that is based on David Grann's non-fiction novel,...

Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, celebrated for his various iconic contributions to cinema including Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Wolf of Wall Street, and The Irishman, recently discussed the prospect of retirement.

In an interview with GQ Magazine, the director recalled the moments of such doubts loomed after the challenges faced during the productions of Gangs of New York and The Aviator. Funding hurdles and personal investments marked a difficult period bringing him to the point he thought, “I just said, ‘I’m no longer making films," but Scorsese ultimately roared back, clinching the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his very next project, The Departed.

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Since his inaugural film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door in 1967, Scorsese has maintained a workaholic routine, having directed 26 feature films and receiving hundreds of accolades including 13 Academy Award nominations.

There is, of course, the legend that Martin Scorsese’s career nearly ended at Raging Bull: after the disappointments of New York, New York and attendant personal struggles, he (for at least some time) considered the boxing biopic––handled with a “kamikaze” mindset––a fine end of the road. That, of course, did not happen, but we’ve come closer to other retirements than most realize: in a great new GQ profile, Scorsese reveals the one-two punch of Gangs of New York (about which most know Weinstein-inflicted wounds) and The Aviator nearly made him give up. His next movie would nab Best Director and Best Picture Oscars and troubles were averted, but nobody predicted as much at the time.

At nearly 81 the speculation starts again––first with a pre-Cannes Killers of the Flower Moon interview in which Scorsese dwelled on age, then seemingly quelled by news of a couple films he had in development,...

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese has announced his plans to adapt Marilynne Robinson’s novel “Home” into a feature film. The novel, published in 2008, is the second in Robinson’s Gilead series, which explores the lives of the Ames and Boughton families in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa12

Scorsese, who has previously adapted novels such as “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “The Age of Innocence”, and “Shutter Island” for the screen, said he was drawn to Robinson’s work by its rich and complex characters, its themes of faith and forgiveness, and its depiction of mid-20th century America34

Killers of the Flower Moon Trailer

“Home” follows the return of Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister, to his childhood home after 20 years of absence. There, he reconnects with his sister Glory, who is caring for their dying father, and tries to make peace with his past and his future.

Ten years ago, responding to rumors he’d sought to retire, Martin Scorsese succinctly replied, “You’ll have to tackle me to stop me.” Like a lunar cycle following the director on the occasion of three-hour-plus epics starring Leonardo DiCaprio, received wisdom again has it the man’s looking to settle down–then again, a rather elegiac interview on the eve of Killers of the Flower Moon‘s debut would only generate attention of the sort.

Between that film’s Cannes premiere (we have reliably heard it’s very good) and October 20 release, a fantastic profile from Stephanie Zacharek mentions a couple of irons in Scorsese’s fire. Among “lots of movie projects” are an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, companion novel to her Pulitzer-winner Gilead, and the synopsis of which is simply steeped in Late Style:

The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away.

The Us actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain times

Mid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the sky above St Ann’s Warehouse – a state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal space that was once a tobacco warehouse. Inside, a fabulous model of an angel is suspended from the ceiling, and beyond its windows the East River is getting on with its day. Laura Linney is said to be running late and when she arrives she walks in briskly without any diva-esque hauteur. She is all apologies, smiles, grace. She sits down on a circular leather banquette in the foyer and tucks her knees beneath her. She is casually dressed but with a black-and-white scarf for extra flourish. She looks comfortable in her own skin. At 54, there is a much younger woman visible in her face...

Money isn’t everything for the star of Star Wars most expensive film ever.

Alden Ehrenreich, who plays Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, recently spoke with Wealthsimple’s recurring series Money Diaries about why getting paid less on films isn’t always a bad thing.

“Over the past few years, I’ve worked with some incredible, legendary directors — Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Chan-wook Park, Warren Beatty, Ron Howard, and the Coen Brothers — and I’ve discovered something fascinating: The better the director you’re working with, the less you get paid,” he explained.

“For me,...

As is annual tradition, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced this year’s 25 film set to join the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their “cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance,” the films picked range from such beloved actioners as “Die Hard,” childhood classic “The Goonies,” the seminal “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and the mind-bending “Memento,” with plenty of other genres and styles represented among the list.

The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.

“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...

Princess CydStephen Cone has been making movies at a steady clip for over a decade and yet remains largely unknown. It is a momentous and wholly deserved occasion then for him to receive a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Despite mixed receptions and even more erratic distribution patterns, his collection of films isn’t as motley as one might think. While each might tiptoe in a different direction, they maintain a hand in the Stephen Cone universe, imprinted by the same particular humanistic insight. In one of his earliest films, In Memoriam (2011), a young man so subsumed with the sudden death of a couple, fallen from a roof during the throes of pleasure, conducts his own investigation into their ill-fated demise. Innocuous curiosity masks what is essentially an existential inquiry and takes a self-referential pivot when he decides to recreate and film the events,...

Stephen Cone has the tenacity of first-time director, yet he has eight feature films and dozens of shorts to show for it. His vision for filmmaking, grit in self-fundraising, and ability to collaborate with fresh faces (like Joe Keery of Stranger Things fame) and veteran actors alike results in nimble productions with a quick turn-around.

The Film Stage’s Jose Solís reviewed Cone’s newest film Princess Cyd, which opens today in NY and Chicago, saying: “With this, Cone also continues to be one of the few directors who has chosen to contextualize faith rather than demonize it. He shows greater interest in the places where we are like each other, all while celebrating what makes us different.”

Offering a look into his still-young career, Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, programmed Talk About the Passion: Stephen Cone’s First Act, going from...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Bill Forsyth's Housekeeping (1987) is playing October 18 - November 17, 2017 in the United Kingdom. On first viewing Bill Forsyth’s film Housekeeping (1987) I was somewhat unimpressed by its low-key television-movie feel; a small town family drama lacking cinematic spectacle, featuring relatively unknown actors. It seemed thrifty, in keeping with the unfussiness of the story’s central character, Sylvie. By contrast, Marilynne Robinson’s novel, on which the film is based, describes moments of fantastical prophecy, strengthened by the author’s knowledge of Scripture, in images of dead souls recovered from a deep lake resonant of the Bible’s account of the Flood and Apocalypse. Forsyth’s better-known Local Hero (1983), a comedy set in a remote Scottish village, gives viewers a meteor shower, the Northern Lights and Burt Lancaster descending from the sky, so the director’s use of Robinson’s...

Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive screens Thursday March 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30. Director Eric Stange, a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will answer questions following the screening. This is a Free event!

Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.

Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...

“Snubbed” is an imperfect term for the series and performers whose Emmy campaigns conclude Thursday morning—voters intend no disdain, to be sure—but it does capture the feeling of the TV Academy’s annual nominations. Alongside the usual suspects and pleasant surprises, there are inevitably a few disappointments, longtime favorites that lose out and freshman sensations that fail to break through. For those of us on the Emmy beat, in fact, lamenting the Academy’s selections and, yes, “snubs” is as much a rite of passage as celebrating the honorees.

The list below is far from exhaustive. For one thing, it largely excludes series that appear to be on the bubble; I’m not ready to give up on Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) in the Outstanding Lead Actress (Comedy) race, or on “The Americans” in the Outstanding Drama Series category, though both might well end up on the outside looking in.

This month’s WSJ Book Club author, Marilynne Robinson, has written more nonfiction than fiction. Her latest book, “The Givenness of Things,” is a collection of essays, published in October. “Gilead,” her 2004 novel chosen for the WSJ Book Club by our host, Geraldine Brooks, is part of a trilogy. Why did Ms. Robinson end up with a “Gilead” trilogy instead of a single book? Perhaps because she wasn’t ready to bid farewell to the characters or the place she had created.

If you’re like me, you neurotically check the New York Review of Books website every other day to see if any pieces from the next issue have been published in advance. Last week I found that the cover of the new issue had been put up, advertising the interview between Barack Obama and Marilynne Robinson, which was published online on Monday. I sent the cover to a friend and wrote, “Weird. I hope it’s him interviewing her.” It turns out I was right! As an interviewer, Obama has a touch of the old SNL sketch "The Chris Farley Show" about him: “Remember when you wrote Gilead? That was awesome.” Yet this is perhaps the closest attention any U.S. president has ever paid to an American novelist. Norman Mailer interviewed many presidents, mostly before they won the election, and when he met John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic National Convention,...

The Man Booker Prize has announced its long list, or "Man Booker Dozen," for 2015, including five U.S. authors (USA! USA!). You'll remember this is the second year that the Man Booker has opened the competition up to English-speaking countries outside of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Among the nominees are Hanya Yanagihara, who described her influences for A Little Life for Vulture. Here's the complete list: Bill Clegg (U.S.), Did You Ever Have a Family (Jonathan Cape) Anne Enright (Ireland), The Green Road (Jonathan Cape) Marlon James (Jamaica), A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld Publications) Laila Lalami (U.S.), The Moor's Account (Periscope, Garnet Publishing) Tom McCarthy (U.K.), Satin Island (Jonathan Cape) Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), The Fishermen (One, Pushkin Press) Andrew O’Hagan (U.K.), The Illuminations (Faber & Faber) Marilynne Robinson (U.S.), Lila (Virago) Anuradha Roy...

Rectify Season 3, Episode 3 “Sown with Salt”

Written by Coleman Herbert

Directed by Billy Geirhart

Airs Thursday nights at 10pm Et on Sundance

It’s no surprise one of Daniel’s dream destinations is the land of Carthage in Tunisia, home of the Carthagian empire that fell to the Romans in 146 BC. When their lands were stripped and the Carthagian people were enslaved, legends said the Romans “salted the earth” of Carthage, cursing the land for re-inhabitation by the Carthagians or any others. This practice has appeared throughout history, most notably in medieval Spanish culture, when convicted traitors often had their lands covered in salt, as punishment,usually right before their heads ended up on spikes. There’s a strange two-sided nature to this practice; while often a symbolic gesture of destroying the land for agriculture, thus killing any chance of rebirth the civilization might have, the idea of salting a fallen civilization preserves it,...

This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics' year-end lists. 1. Lila, by Marilynne Robinson “Who in the world could need help with a chair?” This is what the protagonist of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel wonders when her husband pulls out her seat at the table. So much of Lila is present in that sentence: her pride, her self-reliance, her mistrust of kindness, and the way that — in her feral, gifted, autodidact’s mind — a profound alienation from society turns anthropologically keen. Readers of Robinson’s 2004 Gilead have met this character before, through the eyes of that husband, the Reverend John Ames. Now, in Lila, we hear her story directly. Born into poverty and neglect, abandoned by her meager community in the worst of the Dust Bowl years, Lila would be as low and aimless as dust itself — but for her mind, and her huge and startling will.

HBO’s much praised crime anthology True Detective is nearing the climax of its engrossing eight-episode first season with a head of hard boiled steam and so many mysteries. Who really killed Dora Lange? Might our enlightenment-challenged heroes – pessimist grump Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and dim Everyman Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) – actually be the villains? Will an otherworldly spaghetti monster soar and seize control of the godless Louisiana waste? We brought creator Nic Pizzolatto in for questioning and tried to make him spill. “In our third act, timelines, action and character all align. In that way, they may play as...