Nothing makes me think that Scorsese is really worried about the state of film more than this lol
did this senile f***er pick birdman over TGTBTU and parasite over dancer in the dark?
street are done
F you making me look up that acronym for dat bull crap
Official statement from the LA Times interview:
'Do you know you landed on “2001” as the winner? “Yes, we started yelling, ‘Yay. ‘2001!’ Somehow we chose that. Am I choosing the poster or am I choosing the film?”
So you don’t want to be held accountable for your choices, I say. Scorsese raises his hands, indicating “maybe, maybe not.” Looking to give him another out, I wonder if it’s maybe hard to make a choice in a matter of seconds.
“Oh, no, I can do that,” he says, smiling. “And there were a couple of films, honestly, I didn’t know anything about.” (We’ll let you do the guesswork on that.)
OK, but “Birdman” over Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?
“I prefer ‘Once Upon a Time in the West,’” Scorsese counters, referring to the 1968 Leone classic starring Henry Fonda. ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has great things in it. But I prefer that one.”
“When I first saw ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ in a private screening with a friend of mine, Jay Cocks, Time magazine, we fell asleep,” Scorsese continues. “We disliked it. ‘What are these Italians doing, making westerns? There’s no such thing. It’s Howard Hawks and John Ford and Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann. This is outrageous!’ A couple of years later, it popped up on television and I kept watching it. And I realized it’s not a western. Ultimately, it’s a grand opera. And the framing and the cutting and the length of time he took with the actors. We became obsessed with the film.”'
Official statement from the LA Times interview:
'Do you know you landed on “2001” as the winner? “Yes, we started yelling, ‘Yay. ‘2001!’ Somehow we chose that. Am I choosing the poster or am I choosing the film?”
So you don’t want to be held accountable for your choices, I say. Scorsese raises his hands, indicating “maybe, maybe not.” Looking to give him another out, I wonder if it’s maybe hard to make a choice in a matter of seconds.
“Oh, no, I can do that,” he says, smiling. “And there were a couple of films, honestly, I didn’t know anything about.” (We’ll let you do the guesswork on that.)
OK, but “Birdman” over Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”?
“I prefer ‘Once Upon a Time in the West,’” Scorsese counters, referring to the 1968 Leone classic starring Henry Fonda. ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has great things in it. But I prefer that one.”
“When I first saw ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ in a private screening with a friend of mine, Jay Cocks, Time magazine, we fell asleep,” Scorsese continues. “We disliked it. ‘What are these Italians doing, making westerns? There’s no such thing. It’s Howard Hawks and John Ford and Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann. This is outrageous!’ A couple of years later, it popped up on television and I kept watching it. And I realized it’s not a western. Ultimately, it’s a grand opera. And the framing and the cutting and the length of time he took with the actors. We became obsessed with the film.”'
Jay Cocks