Martin Scorsese on the Birth of the Modern Movie

Martin Scorsese on Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, and the birth of the modern movie.
Taken from an interview for Journey to Italy, out now on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD: www.criterion.c...

[@joliecide]

Guys the time has come. Please have Marty pick movies from the Criterion shelf. And please don't forget to film it.

[@joancollaku8744]

Marty would take the whole closet he loves movies too much to leave something behind

[@DuncanUdaho67]

No point, he probably owns everything lol.

[@TheGyroBarqusShow]

The dude got a collation of rare 35mm prints of films, actually the 3h25m version of andrei rublev (which is there is a couple of prints survived) in the criterion was his, the criterion asked him if they can scan it and he agreed

[@65g4]

​@@joancollaku8744dude i could spend hours in those shelves

[@abirbhabmaitra7905]

I love this guy so badly. Love you, Marty.

[@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771]

Whoa why don't you marry him then.

[@abirbhabmaitra7905]

@@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771 because he is already married.

Rossellini's War Trilogy is excellent. Haven't seen his later movies yet.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

His films with Ingrid Bergman are pretty great. I particularly loved Stromboli.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

I could listen to Marty talking about films all day....

[@DanielThePoet22]

I feel the strong connection between Rossellini and Scorsese

[@jessierong4306]

And he married Rosselini's beautiful daughter Isabella in the late 70's😃 They were together for only 3 years though.

[@MarcBrewer]

Good for him. He has nothing bad to say about his ex-mother-in-law.

[@somniansvulpes]

It's not just his ex-mother-in-law. It's one of the most major actress of the XXth century, and he wouldn't be fair as a director if he wouldn't recognize it. And anyway he is way beyond that, he is talking about the History of Cinema, not his personal life.

[@DuncanUdaho67]

Lol why would he? Just because you break up with someone doesn’t mean you have to hate their parents lmao.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

It's clear he admires them outside of his private life as peers and professionals in the art of filmmaking.

[@DerHalbeEuro]

Real oldschool guy. Always wearing suits in his interviews

[@jov6372]

Thats like the template for gis movies thoese the films you can see the style in his movie's..

[@jandro]

Get it Marty!!

[@actiongirlsscottyjx5418]

Didn’t Martin say communists were the first film makers.

[@BugVlogs]

Not sure where he said that, although it is true that Soviet filmmakers had a huge influence on the development of modern film editing

[@joancollaku8744]

They kinda were

[@hamburgareable]

@@BugVlogs Sergei Eisenstein was a communist, perhaps

[@hamburgareable]

The soviets probably used film as a Communist tool.

[@actiongirlsscottyjx5418]

@@hamburgareable Yeah, there is a great movie, I saw recently, financed by Stalin after the war, about, and called Stalingrad. I found it by watching a youtuber Mauzer, who makes great music videos, from old public domain movies, and edited the clips into something awesome, unbelievable shots. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmfLfWimf52dldE

[@300daysandnights]

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[@firstname_islastname_is4514]

Marvel movies are by definition are Cinema. This Guy. a theater where movies are shown for public entertainment; a movie theater.

[@songdanceman9881]

comic book movies are for immature people, there comes a point when you have grow up and not be obsessed with things you loved as a kid, no matter how “dark” or “gritty” they’re made. You don’t eat baby food as an adult, you move onto things of substance. Scorsese movies are made for grown ups.

[@andrewfraser.6529]

Blarf Splinditzel this is the most pretentious shit i’ve ever heard. there can be more implicit readings of super hero films but equally so what if someone wants to take a superhero film at face value and enjoy themselves.

[@spb7883]

andrew fraser. I think it’s more complicated than what you’ve both posted. But getting back to the original poster, if anything is pretentious it’s the notion that “this guy” Martin Scorsese doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

[@user-bl9hh1xm9w]

andrew fraser Blockbuster Studio-baptized-“directors” sadly know less about camera angles & frame work than the medium spectator (& even less than the medium cinephile spectator)...There are some basic archetypical concepts in Marvel films but the bam-boom-zdoing noisy for the shake of noise attitude is far away from Really Innovative Eye-opening Cinema!

[@evanpeltier]

Franchise films are made for the sake of purely making money and "entertaining" the audience. Marvel films are by definition, exactly that. That is NOT cinema in any way whatsoever. Cinematic films are made by filmmakers who simply love what they do for the sake of DOING IT, even if they don't necessarily have the resources to make a film. Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, etc. They all make cinematic films.

[@firstname_islastname_is4514]

Old man - mad his films that don't make billions. Cry me a river old Man! Your style is old, modern do you understand that logic?

[@bebaguette766]

Does this look like a man who is mad his films don't make billions? This isn't some Disney executive bean counter that aims for maximum appeal with bland and banal action films that only aim to entertain the video game generation. You speak of "modern" filmmaking, but all it really is, is just the same old, corporate trash it's always been, working on a formula like sausages produced in a sausage factory. It's cinema and tv and whatever, but most importantly, it's just content. When a bunch of suits gather together to plan out a bunch of similar films with similar aesthetics, scores, action and storylines, what is there to be so happy about?

[@joshuafletcher4501]

Henry G wonderfully put, almost brought a tear to my eye lmao

[@thehardtruth3886]

I bet you are the kind of guy who think that’s Avengers: Endgame is the best movie ever made

[@abinashmohanty3201]

I guarantee your favourite film is Spidermen No way home or Avengers End Game

[@Radentstwo]

I’d rather the old style a ton than the new. It seems like you don't understand that quality matters over quantity.

[@joliecide]

Guys the time has come. Please have Marty pick movies from the Criterion shelf. And please don't forget to film it.