O Lendário Martin Scorsese

Many other documentaries about artists or creative people tends to put the focus on the person itself and the private life with the work as framework. Not this one. His filmmaking is the narrative much like the HBO documentary about Spielberg. Of course there is some marriage mentioned and some childhood memories but most of the time it's the filmmaking in focus. Five episodes it's almost not enough to go through this man's work.

I really like Scorsese's movies. In front of a camera. The guy is incredibly charming, smart, sharp. What he did, what he do for film history with his film foundation is unmatched and a marvel. His cinema was, *and still is* ground-breaking.

Alas, this TV doc feels like a pr stunt because he need money for his next movies. And that would be OK.

But what transpire of this cut - "he's *really* a enraged sinner with a martyr complex but sometimes quite a saint" -, the unsaid things - how Isabella Rossellini say "he's such a small man" *twice* with a marvellous smile... -, feels at best shallow - not a single DOP or first AD interviewed in 4h45m *with this subject* ? ; "Weinstein was a thug who want to make money"... like a lot of the characters you choose to explore but nobody seems to want to ask him that -, at worst obviously manipulative, like for someone with loads of skeletons in his closet ready to come out in a The New Yorker's long-form piece.

Perhaps I'm mistaken, and I hope so. Perhaps it's just a dull doc. But what Scorsese show us in his movies is this : men are ugly creatures, foremost.

Scorsese's films are what sparked my love for movies and the craft of acting and filmmaking. When I first watched Goodfellas at age 15, I was completely blown away. Then I discovered many more and was repeatedly won over every time. He doesn't go into things half-assed and he doesn't tell easy stories. That's what I always admired about them.

Like all the best filmmakers, Marty put many autobiographical elements in his movies, as well as using his work as a fix to quell his manic energy. His last two movies could go up to three to five hours long, and yet they never felt like that. Because he knows how to pull all the right punches to tell great stories with fascinating characters and settings. Isolated, cult-like worlds with complex characters. As well as themes of faith, redemption and prices to pay.

There is a reason why every actor wants to work with him, and why he's regarded as one of cinemas greatest directors.

Goodfellas is my favourite and the film i have watched the most by the greatest living Director, and this Documentary series fleshes the journey that he has gone on to make art like this beautifully. His collaborations with actors editors, screenwriters evolves with such great detail that its a film lovers paradise.

Nothing is rose tinted our backed away from including conversations about his own quite complicated personality and life and loves.

This documentary shows how this man has worked incredibly hard to create some of the best films of all time and it's laid out and edited so succinctly that the whole breadth of his story is explained to a tee.

Off to the shops tomorrow to buy the other. Scorsese films I haven't already got in my collection.

My Rating : 9/10

Brilliantly directed/interviewed by Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese is an homage to one of the great living American directors. Of course, we have to talk about his asthma. Aside from that, growing up in a violent neighbourhood with his father taking him to the movies ignited the young Marty's mind toward the magical realism of the movies. The great thing about watching this documentary is that you can watch scenes from multiple great movies if you are severely time-restricted and not in the mood for a full movie-screening. Violence is explored in a personal, intimate way since Marty is known for it specifically so definitely the interviewer goads at it constantly to get to the truth of the matter, or origins perhaps. He didn't grow up with books unfortunately. His internal adolescent rebellion is seen here, his ambitiousness for a future for himself is motivational. Haig Manoogian his film professor's passion really proved a serious turning point. Also, the rebellion he had as an Hollywood outsider is indicated.

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