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Scorsese by Ebert

In what will be a "Must Read" for all Scorsese fans, film critic Roger Ebert has written what will be one of the definitive books on the director.
Pub Date: 1 Oct 2008

Playboy Interviews:
The Directors

Interviews with 17 filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, and Spike Lee.

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are planning to team again for the next project - and no it won't be the Teddy Roosevelt biopic - it will be an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's thriller "Shutter Island."

Variety magazine is reporting that the film was suddenly put on the fast track with Paramount and Columbia looking to co-produce. The plan would be to shoot "Shutter Island" as early as March 2008 in somewhere in the northeast of the US.

[ Read the rest on the Shutter Island project ]

Shine A Light

Martin Scorsese's film which follows The Rolling Stones' 2006 world tour will be released on 4 April 2008. The director shot 'Shine A Light' over two nights as the legendary band played intimate concerts at New York's Beacon Theatre. The film show backstage footage as well as rare archive footage and a host of new interviews.

The music of the Rolling Stones has lit up the soundtrack to many Scorsese films ("Gimme Shelter" has appeared in no less than three of his features--GOODFELLAS, CASINO, and THE DEPARTED). SHINE A LIGHT begins with a few glimpses of the preparation that went into the recording of the show, which was staged over two nights at New York City's Beacon Theatre in 2006. Scorsese also includes some candid footage of the Stones doing a pre-show meet-and-greet with guests Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The bulk of the movie is dedicated to the multi-camera shoot at the Beacon, which captures the Stones playing some of their biggest hits and a few lesser-known numbers. Special guests such as Jack White, Buddy Guy, and Christina Aguilera are ushered on at various points in the show, and the concert footage is broken up by some amusing vintage footage of the band.

The DVD of Shine A Light Will be Release on 29 July 2008 [ More ]

Scorsese's movie selections:

The filmmaker's must-see picks in the Directv monthly magazine for June 2008 are :

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
The Goddess (1934)
Shanghai Express (1932)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Scorsese: I love movies...I also love to see them presented as well as possible. Obviously, there's no substitute for a good 35mm print, but the reality is that most people don't have access to the archives, museums and film societies in the major cities that show them... I just want to stress how important it is to see the work under the best possible conditions: digital masters made with care from the best elements, with the right aspect ratio, a clean soundtrack, no commercials. The presentations of movies at home keep getting better and better. Let's hope it stays that way.

Directv.com

Taxi Driver Collector's Edition

On August 14 2007 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is finally bringing out a Limited Collector’s Edition DVD version of Taxi Driver. This 2-disc set includes a newly recorded feature-length commentary by director Martin Scorsese, more interviews with producers, actors and film critics on the cinematic importance of Taxi Driver and Scorsese, as well as a “Taxi Driver stories” featurette. The bonus features include:

• "Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver" Featurette
• "Producing Taxi Driver" Featurette
• "Influence and Appreciation" Documentary
• Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman and others pay tribute to Scorsese and the film
• "God’s Lonely Man" Documentary
• "Travis’ New York Locations" Featurette
• Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction
• and more...

[ Read more on the release of Taxi Driver Limited Edition DVD ]

Editor Thelma Schoonmaker Discusses
Working With Marty

"Oh, go ahead and heft it," Thelma Schoonmaker urged. "Everyone else has."

"It" was the Oscar statuette she had won earlier that week for best film editing, for "The Departed". Schoonmaker, 67, was sitting in her editing room at Martin Scorsese's production company. She has edited every Scorsese feature since Raging Bull, in the process becoming one of the most respected figures in American film.

Jay Cocks, who collaborated on the screenplays for Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York, likens Schoonmaker to a giant of jurisprudence.

"Basically, editing is not only the great finishing room, it's the court of last appeal," he said in a telephone interview from New York. "And you've got Justice Brandeis when you've got Thelma."

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On DVD Martin Scorsese Collection Vol 2 features: Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Departed and The Aviator.

Shine A Light SHINE A LIGHT provides a welcome glimpse into the Stones' world at this advanced stage in their career, and continues Scorsese's obsession (see also: NO DIRECTION HOME and THE LAST WALTZ) with documenting some of the most influential characters in rock & roll.