Search results

Tell that to Andy Warhol.

30 years ago, Scorsese could get studio backing for a prestige project such as The Age of Innocence. Today, he would have to go to Netflix to get funding for that, too.

And the closing of movie theaters due to the virus compounded the existing problem. It left us even more at the mercy of the same companies who reduced the number of choices available to us.

Heaven's Gate was 40 years ago. Even Criterion tried to give it a second chance on Blu-ray. But when they made the movie, they didn't know that it would be so violently rejected by the public who embraced The Deer Hunter so willingly. But that was just one case of artistic ambition that didn't...

I heard that same argument by the uninformed "expert" standing in line for a movie in Annie Hall. But those were 1970s TVs which were much smaller than modern ones, and there was no cable and thus no Turner Classic Movies, and home video barely existed so that venue was not yet open to them. In...

The studio went in this direction subsequently. Let's face it, Disney is one of the primary reasons for the state of affairs described in this article. Even when other studios did the same, none of them did so quite as vociferously except possibly Warner Bros. since they own DC. That's why...

Scorsese worked for Disney in the 1990s to make the movie Kundun, a Touchstone release which they later had to apologize for after they upset the Chinese Government. I wonder whether there are still any hard feelings over that.

To be honest, I'd rather watch Wonder Woman than Gangs of New York, but not out of any sense of reverse genre snobbery but because I simply felt the latter was substandard for Scorsese. The bigger problem is that Hollywood doesn't seem to want to greenlight any other kind of film other than...

How many people making those "get off my lawn" memes have even seen or heard of the movies he mentions in this article? If anything, it's Scorsese's critics who prove to be the closed-minded ones by dismissing the possibilities of a cinematic world beyond what mainstream Hollywood studios have...