Tag: Silence
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Martin Scorsese’s Highest-Grossing Film Is This Unhinged Biopic
Martin Scorsese is certainly one of the best filmmakers of all time, but that doesn’t mean he’s also one of the most profitable. While directors like Steven Spielberg and Sir Ridley Scott have created films that have been both critically well-received and financially successful at the global box office, Scorsese isn’t necessarily known for breaking…
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Cancelled Movies We Would Have Most Liked to See
The term “passion project” can either be a positive or negative one for prominent filmmakers. While some films that fought through years of development end up becoming masterpieces, such as Martin Scorsese’s Silence or George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, others go the disastrous route of Colin Trevorrow’s The Book of Henry. Anytime that a…
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What Has Taken Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis So Long?
Every filmmaker has their passion project. Often these take the form of high-concept and higher-budget productions that cross the line between artistic pursuits and commercial viability with such determination they are almost guaranteed to never get the backing of a major studio — at least not without serious compromise and a proven back catalog of…
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Ian McDiarmid: ‘As a kid, I always wanted to be the baddie’
The theatre and film actor on staging a pair of Julian Barnes stories, playing Emperor Palpatine, and finding peace in isolationIan McDiarmid, 77, has distinguished himself as a theatrical all-rounder. He made his name on stage as an actor of incisive authority and is internationally known as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films. Between…
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Cinema Ticket Prices to Rise as Korean Box Office Remains Weak
The theatrical cinema market in South Korea is just about strong enough to sustain a trickle of new release titles, but its continuing weakness points to growing problems in store. Ticket prices are set to be raised to help ease operators’ losses.New-release crime drama, “Voice of Silence” topped the Korean box office with a quiet…
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‘The Irishman’ Lenser on How the Mind of the Killer Influenced the Cinematography
Rodrigo Prieto, who first visited Poland’s Camerimage fest in 2000 to take the top prize for “Amores perros” and later filmed “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” says his cinematography in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” presented challenges that pushed him into new territory.The crime thriller, adapted from Charles Brandt’s book “I Heard You…
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Telluride: Martin Scorsese Surprise Presenter at Tribute to Adam Driver
Martin Scorsese made a surprise appearance at Adam Driver’s tribute on Saturday night at the Telluride Film Festival before the screening of “Marriage Story.”Scorsese, who directed Driver in “Silence” opposite Andrew Garfield, was introduced to the stage, where he placed one of the festival’s Silver Medallions around the actor’s neck.“What you see before you is…
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Movie Goes to Paramount
For most of the 2010s, Paramount has been in the Martin Scorsese business. The studio distributed Scorsese’s films Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence before balking at the price tag of The Irishman (Netflix scooped that one up and will release it later this year). But Paramount wants to finish out…
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Terrence Malick Reportedly Shooting Next Movie, ‘The Last Planet,’ About The Life Of Christ
“Terrence Malick wrote me a letter when he saw [‘Silence’], and he said, ‘What does Christ want from us?’,” Martin Scorsese revealed during the Tribeca Film Festival. The question of grace, life, spirituality, creation, the meaning of life and all of our big questions about the universe have consumed Malick’s entire career, but especially in…