For me, for the filmmakers I came to love and respect, for my friends who started making movies around the same time that I did, cinema was about revelation — aesthetic, emotional and spiritual revelation. Because, of course, the individual artist is the riskiest factor of all. The climax of “Strangers on a Train” is a feat, but it’s the interplay between the two principal characters and Robert Walker’s profoundly unsettling performance that resonate now. Martin Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian whose career spans more than fifty years. Queens, New York City, New York, USA, 16 October 2020 And I fear that the financial dominance of one is being used to marginalize and even belittle the existence of the other. To be in a packed house in one of the old theaters watching “Rear Window” was an extraordinary experience: It was an event created by the chemistry between the audience and the picture itself, and it was electrifying. But the sameness of today’s franchise pictures is something else again. I’m certainly not implying that movies should be a subsidized art form, or that they ever were. Let Me Explain.
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They are sequels in name but they are remakes in spirit, and everything in them is officially sanctioned because it can’t really be any other way. Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. But, you might argue, can’t they just go home and watch anything else they want on Netflix or iTunes or Hulu? I said that I’ve tried to watch a few of them and that they’re not for me, that they seem to me to be closer to theme parks than they are to movies as I’ve known and loved them throughout my life, and that in the end, I don’t think they’re cinema. Many films today are perfect products manufactured for immediate consumption. The situation, sadly, is that we now have two separate fields: There’s worldwide audiovisual entertainment, and there’s cinema.

That includes me, and I’m speaking as someone who just completed a picture for Netflix. And the act of simply writing those words fills me with terrible sadness. "AFI's 100 Greatest American Films of All Time" - 4.Raging Bull (1980) 52.Taxi Driver (1976) 92.Goodfellas (1990)". Criterion Collection’s January 2021 Titles: Bob Dylan, ‘Boards, and Buñuel. "Revisiting the Violence and Style of Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull, "Martin Scorsese premiere for Sheffield Doc/Fest", "Did a Chinese casino really just pay $70 million for a 15-minute Martin Scorsese film? ", "8 Commercials Directed by Martin Scorsese", "Martin Scorsese Eats a Cookie (2012) directed by George Clooney", "Martin Scorsese made a cameo in Silence and no-one caught it", "Did You Catch Martin Scorsese's Cameo in The Irishman? “It’s a perilous time in film exhibition, and there are fewer independent theaters than ever,” says Martin Scorsese. But is it the thrills and the shocks that we keep going back to? Some say that Hitchcock’s pictures had a sameness to them, and perhaps that’s true — Hitchcock himself wondered about it. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. People went to be surprised and thrilled, and they weren’t disappointed.
", A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Scorsese_filmography&oldid=979720748, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Honored at the 1965 National Student Film Festival, L'Âge d'or  – Knokke-le-Zoute Film Festival, Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie, This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 11:35. And here’s our email: letters@nytimes.com. Martin Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer.