Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini - Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection

[@kleem1]

If you're like me and immediately want to watch the films Scorsese mentions in this here is a list: 1. Rome Open City (1945) - Dir. Robert Rossellini 2. Paisan (1946) - Dir. Robert Rossellini 3. Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Dir. Vittorio De Sica 4. Stromboli (1950) - Dir. Robert Rossellini 5. Europe '51 (1952) - Dir. Robert Rossellini 6. Journey to Italy (1954) - Dir. Robert Rossellini 7. The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Dir. Henry King 8. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Dir. John M. Stahl 9. Two for the Road (1967) - Dir. Stanley Donen 10. Thelma & Louis (1991) - Dir. Ridley Scott Enjoy.

[@winkmurder]

Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) is one of my favourite films. I would also highly recommend La Strada (Federico Fellini).

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

I've watched half of those, brilliant indeed.

[@Aldarux]

I don't know how necessary it is, but I would love it if Vice made a separate channel which is dedicated to the artistic side of cinema full of videos just like this one.

[@robonick3607]

It's not by Vice, but it's called the Criterion Collection. They make videos like this all of the time.

[@jackbonobo]

For anyone who hasn't already seen Scorsese's 'My Voyage to Italy' documentary it is well worth the watch (particularly if you want to know more about Italian neo-realism), as is 'A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies.'

[@zapillofilms]

Martin Scorsese is not just a genius director but also a film History scholar with a prodigious memory. I love all the ideas he points in this interview, like 'Journey to Italy' being the first road movie. Brilliant guy, I could listen to him for hours...

[@gardensofthegods]

Yes I feel the same way about him.... I could just listen to him talk and talk and talk because he's just so fascinating and he notices everything

[@Scaredmushrooms]

These are the type of videos I love to see by Vice, well done.

[@NoPictureHere]

how did you comment 2 days ago when they posted the vid 15 mins ago?

[@Name-dw7ix]

NoPicture lel

[@derrickforeal]

What the hell the video is hours old and the comment is days old. Wtf

[@seba.abarzua]

ptennisproductions "KZbin"

[@lorenzodemedici1]

Fun fact, Scorsese was married to Rosselini's daughter from 1979-1982.

[@beflygelt]

Fun fact she has a name, Isabella Rosselini, and she's a wonderful actress herself, especially in Blue Velvet - she also dated Lynch at that time

[@s.a.l.1974]

Ingrid Bergman was also her mother

[@NoirFan84]

@@s.a.l.1974 Her more beautiful mother.

[@gairickdam18]

Talking about father in law

[@OfficialDjCreep]

Scorsese is a living legend

[@willieluncheonette5843]

The Flowers of St. Francis is one of my 13 all time favorite films.

[@hypnos4754]

Incredibly underrated film. It is also one of my favorites of all time. It’s certainly overlooked amongst most of Rossellini’s movies.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@hypnos4754 the non professional lead actor is SO good and that last scene is sublime. Brings tears to my eyes. St Francis was enlightened and this film does him justice. "Saint Francis of Assisi lay on his deathbed. He was singing, and singing so loudly that the whole neighborhood was aware. Brother Elias, a pompous but prominent member of the Franciscan order, came close to Saint Francis and said, ‘Father, there are people standing in the street outside your window.’ Many had come. Fearing that the last moment of Francis’ life had come, many who loved him had gathered together around the house. Said this brother Elias, “I am afraid nothing we might do could prevent them from hearing you singing. The lack of restraint at so grave an hour might embarrass the order, Father. It might lower the esteem in which you yourself are so justly held. Perhaps in your extremity you have lost sight of your obligation to the many who have come to regard you as a saint. Would it not be more edifying for them if you would, er, die with more Christian dignity?” “Please excuse me, Brother,” Saint Francis said, “but I feel so much joy in my heart that I really can’t help myself. I must sing!” And he died singing. In the whole Christian history, he’s the only one who has died singing. Many Zen people have died singing, but they don’t belong to Christianity. He is the only Zen master amongst Christian saints. He didn’t care a bit about Christian dignity. Saint Francis of Assisi has a different vision - he is just ordinary. He says, “Please excuse me, Brother, but I feel so much joy in my heart that I really can’t help myself. I must sing!” In fact, it is not that Francis is singing, Francis has become the song. That’s why he cannot help, he cannot control. There is nobody left to control it. If the song is happening it is happening. It is not within control, it can’t be, because the controller has disappeared. The self, the ego, no more exists. Saint Francis does not exist as an individual. There is absolute silence inside. Out of that silence this song is born. What can Francis do? That’s why he says, “I can’t help it. I must sing!” And he died singing. And there can be no other better death. If you can die singing, that proves that you lived singing, that your life was a joy and death became the crescendo of it, the culmination. Saint Francis of Assisi is a Buddha. The characteristic of a Buddha is that he is ordinary, that he has no ideas about himself of how he should be, that he simply is spontaneous, that whatsoever happens, happens. He lives on the spur of the moment, that is his authenticity. You can call it his characteristic, but what kind of characteristic is this? It is simply that he has no character, he has no strait-jacket of a character around himself, he has no armor, he does not live from the past, that he does not know what Christian dignity is. He lives in the moment like a child."

[@flyinglittleduckss]

It's too bad Roberto Rossellini died before Martin Scorsese married his daughter, Isabella Rossellini. Maybe they could have met; two great directors.

[@xewxewzewzew663]

Hi

[@xewxewzewzew663]

@paul w hi asshole

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

At least he got to meet Fellini.

[@gardensofthegods]

But I can't even find much about when Scorsese was married to Isabella Rossellini ... but I would like to know more about when they were married

[@gardensofthegods]

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 for him to meet Fellini must have been probably one of the greatest days of his life

[@framcescomariacarreri5349]

Rossellini is the greatest director of all time, for anyone who has only seen his neorealist films and loved them I encourage you to check out all of his filmography, and not just the films marty talks about here but also his later films, especially the historical epics he made for tv (best ones are acts of the apostles and Age of the Medici) nobody has ever made films like these

[@mauricioduron3193]

In total agreement. In 1973, the Filmoteca of Madrid paid an extraordinary week-long tribute to Rossellini which covered both his screen work as well as his projects for Italian and French television. Impossible to figure out which his best was other than the known classics, but 'The Rise to Power of Louis XIV' indeed was an unexpected and remarkable revelation.

[@butterybeans2791]

I love VICE. You guys should seriously consider making other channels based on different matters. Cinema, Conflict, Music, and or whatever. Or just release stuff like this more often because it's nice to see these legends. :)

[@john15319]

Scorsese is one of the best inspirations for all upcoming filmmakers

[@InterScudetto]

He had a massive cocaine addiction problem in the 70s. Raging bull was supposed to be his final film

[@gardensofthegods]

But what do you mean it was supposed to be his final film... are you saying the big studios in the producers were going to ditch him if he didn't stop doing cocaine..... I just wish you would explain more because I'm not sure I follow what you're saying

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

@gardensofthegods Scorsese was at a low point of his personal life in 1980, he had just divorces his wife, his last film, New York New York, bombed at the box office and was a critical disappointment, and at the top of it all, he was fighting his cocaine addiction. At that point Scorsese said that he didn't want to make any more films, so Robert De Niro convinced him to make Raging Bull, and after that film was a success, he started making films non stop again.

[@joaofernandes4769]

Rossellini: best director ever!

[@HorridDave]

far from that

[@framcescomariacarreri5349]

the greatest

[@NoirFan84]

🤨

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

Watching his films, I'm blown away by his crowd control, which, you could say the same of people like Spielberg or Hitchcock. But while the latters had extras and filmed in sound stages, not to demerit their talents, but Rossellini filmed on the streets, filming the locals being themselves, with no control of what they were doing, and still, they never look at the camera, they're part of the worlds that Rossellini is trying to potray on screen.

[@edwinkirkland8856]

These films(italy,japan,Britain)opened my eyes up before vcer>disc)

[@wildboy2222]

First Nolan, now Scorsese. Awesome! Please do Soderbergh next

[@likeasauceboss1]

No Michael Bay next. Lol I wanna hear him talk about pyrotechnics

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Nolan? Batman movies? Dark Knight (I walked out on it), superhero movies, give me a break. He's not up to these. Overrated director.

[@Gonz931]

What I wonder is why is the Vice watermark on top of a video made by the Criterion team? I realize the title says Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection, but it isn't clear who made the interview. The trick seems to have worked, with many viewers trusting that it is the Vice team who made it. It's great that they share these insightful and fascinating interviews but give to Caesar what is of Caesar's.

[@shaunpearson7905]

+Alonso Díaz de la Vega I was about to say something similar - I'm not able to check right now, but I'm sure this is from a Criterion Blu-ray or DVD I own.

[@moonlightval13]

GREAT VIDEO 🖤

[@sofiadorrell99]

such a golden interview

[@_bergflow]

this series is awesome. keep em coming.

[@hmm3265]

His watch is stunning, 7:11 for the still shot.

[@StephenYuan]

Weird how every comment in this thread is about Scorsese and none is about the films he's talking about.

[@adamnoman4658]

Yes. It is the tendency toward the cult of personality. The same would be true if the comments were indeed about the films. They would be about Bergman (see below) and not the character she attempts to embody. - -

[@TheTachy0n]

Although I'm not a fan of most of his work (Taxi Driver is one of the best movies ever made though) his encycplopedic knowledge of cinema is really impressive.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

I didn't like Raging Bull. Overrated film.

[@WithLoveThomas]

What does one buy first. War Trilogy or Ingrid Trilogy?

[@nathanstoneman1185]

Why does Martin Scorsese Look like the old guy from "Up"

[@mryoungvet]

Ive only seen Rome Open City and plan on watching Paisan soon

[@trocchiettoski]

Is strange if you see the first Rossellini and De Sica Italian neorealistic movies without knowing why they were made, they (do not take me wrong) can appear almost boring, the budget of the first ones was limited, the stories are a kind of documentary, and the plot is not defined as a movie made with marketing purpose. But if you know the history behind the message and you see documentaries as this one, they appear then as masterworks. Is amazing how I could change idea seeing them from this new perspective of what neorealism wanted to achieve. Look up 100 italian movies to save on the internet and enjoy them. Changing perspective is what intelligent people should teach to their friends, encouraging to see movies like this ones, saying them the history behind, is almost as reading history books

[@oh_heeeyyy]

This is the stuff I like to see, not some idiot scooter gangs... well done Vice!

[@kubricklynch]

I did not know the Continental skits on SNL were a reference to something.

[@diegomoreno5927]

He is the great director of cinema

[@tawsifjawad6625]

Thank you.

[@l.pmoonstone5067]

Scorsese born 1942 nov 17, De Niro born 1942 aug 17. Interesting.

[@l.pmoonstone5067]

***** 2 film legends born 2 mths apart, i think its neat. thats all. I was born nov 17th 1990. :)

[@l.pmoonstone5067]

***** All three of us are scorpios and i am Italian as well. Both my parents were born in Italy :)

[@MrBilliefan]

Actually, De Niro was born on Aug 17 1943.

[@BornToBop]

does he dye his eyebrows?

[@sclogse1]

If you look at Martin in this, obviously he's filmed on digital. It may be high def, etc., but all over his face are these micro contrasts. They are not realistic, as one would experience him if they sat by him. Looks like sharpness has been added, and it's a mistake. Also the flesh tone is strangely pink. Look how perfect the interior shots of George and Ingrid are on film. Shooting digital requires real professionalism.

[@mrnarason]

very nice film interview, i like

[@OMGWTFShizznat]

Did you guys just buy this video off some other company? I saw this interview with him in clips from some other person like months ago.

[@MungareMike]

I always wondered, how many movies Scorsese had watch (and remember the scene in em) in his entire life..?

[@edwinkirkland8856]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢bellisissimo

[@AdventKnyght]

-Wes Anderson -Speilberg -Tarantino

[@kieranl5249]

Godard is still alive

[@tamekasbelaberg0356]

- Andrei Tarkovsky - Ingmar Bergman - Kenji Mizoguchi - Sergei Parajanov -Robert Bresson

[@officialPrighozin]

😅😂😂😂

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@tamekasbelaberg0356 Good you mentioned Parajanov. Great films.

[@myzjjbaybeeanno]

He looks like the old guy from UP!

[@stephaniestanley8041]

My god her beauty

[@sarahannovistuartdpstudio6417]

"Don't be afraid darling !It's just a men's apartment :)"

[@Hi-sz2br]

all. I can say is WOW, , are Wonderful films.

[@ThoughtfulThug]

So who's next? Ridley Scott? James Cameron?

[@kieranl5249]

Who's the next Godard, Bergman. Who is the next director that will completely change the face of cinema?

[@sclogse1]

After the war, the various occupying powers...U.S., British, French, Russians, distributed flyers telling people about rights and freedoms, including freedom of the press. Rossellini tells this story himself.

[@johnathanclark79]

I saw that movie

[@flamingocupproductions5329]

damn, my like on this pushed it to 2K views

[@SenorPescadorJohnson]

as a 60 y.o still surfing ole HIPPIE these films were watched by my folks and me and well screened in the 70's 72-75 1st time college, very well done and thanks for your fine insights Mr. Scorcese soon my documentary will begin and it will part of MY Existentialist film to be done entirely in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico called 'El Ostionero' about to film taking this big ambulance back to Iztapa, it should be a blast especially the instant we cross into Mexico, then the surreal begins, jaaa plus.google.com/b/114900988324650815933/+FairtradefishOrgGodLovesYou/posts

[@abu-bakarrbah9035]

All im saying is Taxi Driver pt. 2

[@InterScudetto]

Scorsese even plays with the idea that Travis bickle died at the endn

[@markdavids2511]

Bergman is the greatest female actress to date.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Well no. There are others. Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn and of course the great Garbo.

[@stormthornberry8832]

HEY VICE! Are you going to cancel Scorsese interviews? The view count's looking pretty low at two days old. The moped gangs video is already 50k + and its 8 hours old. Poor fucking Jim Norton, you CANCELLED IT FOR NO REASON. Who's in charge over there? Do you even care anymore?

[@McSwigg]

mmm yess tha moovies

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Please mr scorsese i want to at least talk to you ill buy the breakfast and lunch and dinner whatever

[@apolloinknl]

Seriously hes a great director when he wants to he hits it.out of the park but seriously the wolf of wall street was a ball im the muts

[@InterScudetto]

Ya it's similar to the one he did on AFI

[@caroldroge5349]

❤️

[@erickbarren51]

Ef Scorsese and Ef Vice.

[@likeasauceboss1]

Then get the ef outta here

[@stephaniestanley8041]

His cinematography was not stark. It was rich and bountiful.

[@CuteCatFaith]

Uprated.

[@delona6485]

What is this man talking about these films in black and white!!? Where is the man of Steele ,marvel comics or dc comics? There are no hobbits or wizard schools!! They made movies about god and spiritual issues with real stories! Is there another planet earth somewhere? The bizarro world where these directors existed? Shocking!

[@oh_rhythm]

yeah, i agree man

[@maxesleners399]

aids

[@njkeyes80]

Grease ball..

[@seanlally4555]

He hasn't made a really good movie in nearly 25 years. Shutter Island nearly made me cry. In the worst possible way.

[@sambenett1814]

he made the departed which as released in 2006, casino released in 1995 and this year he made the wolf of wall street.

[@seanlally4555]

Good movies. Not great.

[@rogerkincaid931]

Silence (2016)

[@KungaMatata]

The Irishman (2019)

[@NoirFan84]

@@rogerkincaid931 Amazing film. His best since Goodfellas, unfortunately it's also his least seen film in that time.

[@alikmelikian2578]

He's Armenian

[@cinziacatani6048]

He's Italian.