Scorsese on The Irishman: 'It may be my last film'

The British newspaper The Guardian has surprised us today with an interview with Martin Scorsese disconcertingly titled: "Martin Scorsese: "The Irish It's maybe the last film I make."

Confusing because it was recently announced the start of shooting in March of his next film, killers of the flower moon (starring Leonardo DiCaprio), and disconcerting because, well, we're talking about Scorsese. A living legend of cinema.

In a long encounter full of noteworthy gems such as «shutter island The Aviator wouldn't be possible today." Scorsese has protested again for the hegemony of superhero movies. It has been during this new internal emptying when the 77-year-old Italian-American has dropped the bomb regarding The Irish, its celebrated (and by some defenestrated) This year's premiere, starring De Niro, Pacino and Pesci and lasting three and a half hours:

Theaters are run by superhero movies, you know, just people flying and hitting and crashing, and that's fine if you want to see that. Simply what happens is that there is no room for other types of movies. I don't know how many more I can do. Maybe it is already. The last. The idea was to at least be able to make it and maybe show it one day at the NFT, maybe one day at the Cinémathèque de Paris. I'm not kidding".

Scorsese has thus responded to a question from journalist Andrew Pulver in which he recalled the autumn controversy on account of Scorsese's noisy criticism of Marvel (which received the support of Francis Ford Coppola).

“We are right now in a scenario where theaters are only showing superhero movies. Of twelve theaters, eleven are for a superhero movie. Do you like superhero movies? Okay, but do you need eleven rooms? It's crazy for movies like, you know, Lady Bird or The Souvenir. Those movies may not necessarily be very commercial, but they are modest, genuine movies that find a large audience. Just because a film is commercial doesn't mean it can't be art. What has consumed theaters is the product. A product is consumed and thrown away. Watch a commercial movie like Singin' in the Rain. You can watch it over and over again. So the question is: how are we going to protect the art?

The answer, if it exists, is to be found in people like Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan, who has just presented the trailer for his new film, tenet.


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