'One of Kubrick's films... is equivalent to ten of somebody else's. Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountain top. You look up and wonder, "How could anyone have climbed that high?".'
--- Martin Scorsese
We live in a world where David Lynch can't get funding for his animated project, "Snootworld" & Francis Ford Coppola struggling to get distribution rights for his dream movie "Megalopolis"; while Hollywood studios make their uninteresting remakes & sequels.
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ is being deemed by some studio execs to be too experimental & not commercial enough to acquire & spend $100M on marketing.
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In Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" (1957), choreographed archers & real arrows were used in order to get real-life fear out of Toshiro Mifune.
Mifune waves his arms in this scene to brush aside the arrows sticking from the planks, indicating the direction he wanted to move.
‘ANOTHER ROUND’ director Thomas Vinterberg gives his thoughts on Chris Rock directing an American remake:
“If it’s shit, he’ll get slapped again.”
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In Martin Scorsese's 'Casino' (1995), Robert De Niro wore a different suit in each of his scenes with the exception of the first & last. This poster shows all the different suits he wore throughout the film
"'Come and See' (1985) is an antifascist & an antiwar film. Another very important purpose was to talk about a human being. What is a human being all about? What are the limitations of a human being? What are the extremes to which a human being can be brought?"
--- Elem Klimov
Look at Martin Scorsese... He is about to be 81 yrs old & he is still fighting an uphill cause to save movies from giant movie corporations, Marvel & now 'Action' films.🙂
He is literally the single greatest thing that has ever happened to the movies.
Martin Scorsese told IndieWire while at the “Killers of the Flower Moon” NYC premiere last night that indie films belong in theaters as much as blockbusters; however, the label of an indie film makes it easier for theater chains to shrug off including movies in their lineups.
"I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was 'The Thing' (1982). My career would have been different if that had been a big hit... The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans."
--- John Carpenter
Werner Herzog visited the set of 'The Shining' (1980), while Stanley Kubrick was filming this scene. Kubrick was concerned that the sound of Danny’s trike going over the hardwood floors & the carpet back & forth didn't sound good. Herzog convinced Kubrick that it sounded cool.
"I said to Emmanuel Lubezki, ‘We need to start from scratch. We need to make the film we would have made before we went to film school— before we learned how to shoot & became too obsessed with polishing everything."
--- Alfonso Cuarón on 'Y tu mamá también' (2001)
"The scene had to be done in one sweeping shot, because it’s his seduction of her and it’s also the lifestyle seducing him."
--- Martin Scorsese,
on 'The Copacabana' restaurant sequence in 'Goodfellas' (1990)
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"There was a practical problem: we simply couldn’t…
"As a little kid. I would fantasize a lot about stories. And I would draw my own movies."
--- Martin Scorsese
11 year old Scorsese’s childhood “film,” one of the many epics he drew in storyboard form. His only audience was his childhood friend.
“In 50 years no one will know who Joe Russo is."
Film writers and more are sounding off after "Avengers" director Joe Russo took a playful jab at Martin Scorsese over box office. BeyondFest says: "Let’s just be honest, Joe Russo is a rich asshole hack.."
"Stanley Kubrick just couldn’t grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters & made 'The Shining' (1980) into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones."
--- Stephen King