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Awards Chatter
A highlight from Wim Wenders - Anselm & Perfect Days
"Wait. Are you gaming? On a Chromebook? Yeah. It's got a high -res 120Hz display, plus this killer RGB keyboard. And I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah. I want you to stop playing and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook. Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine. A new kind of Chromebook. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 506th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the most significant filmmakers of the last 50 years. His credits include classic narrative films like 1984's Paris, Texas, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d 'Or and brought him a Best Director BAFTA Award. And 1987's Wings of Desire, for which he won Cannes' Best Director Prize, as well as documentary films such as 1999's Buena Vista Social Club, 2011's Pina, and 2014's Salt of the Earth, each of which brought him Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominations. And now, at the age of 78, he is out with two new films, one a narrative, Neon's Perfect Days, the story of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, for which Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the other a 3D doc, Janice Films' Anselm, about the art of the German painter and sculptor, Anselm Kiefer. The recipient of the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 2015 and the Telluride Film Festival's Silver Medallion Award this year, he has been described by The Guardian as one of the key figures, along with Fassbender, Herzog, and Schlondorf, of the new German cinema movement that reinvigorated West German film in the 70s, and gave the country of Marlene Dietrich, UFA, and F .W. Murnau a bona fide cinematic movement to rival the Nouvelle Vague, by The New York Times as a film visionary and a great hero of art film audiences everywhere, and by Turner Classic Movies as one of his generation's most appreciated independent filmmakers, VIM Vendors. Over the course of our conversation at the Toronto offices of Elevation Pictures, the Canadian production and distribution company, the 78 -year -old and I discussed his circuitous path to filmmaking and the challenges of forging a career as a filmmaker in Germany back when he was starting out, what led him to America for a number of years and then back to Germany, why he moves between narrative and documentary films as often as any filmmaker except perhaps Martin Scorsese, and why he is particularly committed to making 3D docs, plus much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation. Mr. Vendors, thank you so much for doing this. Great to have you on the podcast. And to begin with, just for anyone who may be living under Iraq and doesn't know, can you share where you were born and raised and what your folks did for a living? So I'm Wim Vendors and I was born in Germany right after the Second World War in August 1945, in a fateful week for the Japanese people. Grew up in post -war Germany, wanted to become a painter. First studied philosophy and medicine but then really drew up the courage to go fully for painting and cocky as I was, I went to Paris thinking that's where you become a painter and instead of becoming a painter in Paris, I became a filmmaker because I discovered the Cinematheque and that you can see the entire movies of the entire world and every screening was for 25 cents, so I saw about a thousand movies in the course of a year and after that it was decided. It wasn't painting, it was movies. Right. Now just to go backwards for a moment though, you've spoken about sort of this sense of growing up in Germany after the war, there were a lot of secrets, a lot of darkness, unanswered questions and you've talked about your parents having, I guess, photos that really kind of maybe opened your mind to the world beyond where you were from. Can you talk about that? Well, when I was a little boy and I started school, the growing up world was very, very busy, reconstructing the country and looking forward to the future and it was all positive and beautiful and you realize even as a boy there's something wrong. Why isn't the past ever a subject and why does nobody look over their shoulders? And eventually you realize all that building and all that effort to rebuild the future was in order to, as fast as possible, forget about the past. And when I saw pictures from the past, also family pictures, there were all these uniforms and, I mean, my father was a doctor in the Second World War and as soon as he finished his studies, they threw him to the front and he was a surgeon and for four years he didn't do anything but put people back together.
AP News
"scorsese" Discussed on AP News
"To work Saturday, meeting with a famous American director after a fever interrupted his regular schedule. The pontiff met with Martin Scorsese and a number of other artists while addressing a conference on the global ethics of the Catholic imagination, according to Vatican news, he also met with visitors from Georgetown university, the Vatican's confirmation of the 86 year old Pope's fever sparked concerns about Francis's health in March he was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with acute bronchitis, the Vatican says the Pope will preside over Pentecost mass Sunday and meet with Italy's president Monday. I'm Julie Walker. Vice president Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman to deliver the West Point commencement speech. Harris told the U.S. Military academy class, they graduated into an increasingly unsettled world where long-standing principles aren't at risk. Global security and global prosperity depend on the leadership of the United States of America. The vice president says America has no greater strategic asset than those wearing our uniform. There is no more noble work than a person can do than to serve our nation in uniform. Four decades ago, West Point graduated its first class of female cadets, still it's made slow progress diversifying its ranks. Julie Walker, New York. This week's AP religion roundup. The archbishop of Chicago wants more information
AP News Radio
Pope Francis resumes regular appointments after canceling schedule with a fever
"Pope Francis returned to work Saturday meeting with a famous American director after a fever interrupted his regular schedule. The pontiff met with Martin Scorsese and a number of other artists, while addressing a conference on the global ethics of the Catholic imagination, according to Vatican news, he also met with visitors from Georgetown university, the Vatican's confirmation of the 86 year old Pope's fever sparked concerns about Francis's health in March he was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with acute bronchitis, the Vatican says the Pope will preside over Pentecost mass Sunday and meet with Italy's president Monday. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Entertainment Update for 5-21
"I'm Archie's are a letter with an entertainment update. Garth Brooks says the upshot of a Las Vegas residency is he's got a built in focus group with the audience. Brooke says because phones will be locked up before the show, he can bring out songs in progress. If I'm working on a song in the afternoon, it's the first day I've ever worked on it. I go out there at night and go, hey, I'm about halfway through this. Tell me what you think. Where do you get that opportunity? Martin Scorsese is presenting his latest film at the Cannes Film Festival. It's called Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese, who is 80, was asked about taking risks at his age. What do they want me to do? I don't understand. Take a risk. No, let's go do something comfortable. Are you kidding kidding? We go inside. NFL great Jim Brown has died at the age of 87, while he was known as one of pro football's first superstars. He also was an actor. He had roles in any given Sunday, the dirty dozen, and he got game. I'm Archie's are a letter
Filmspotting
"scorsese" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Come back and he says I just give me another ten hail marys and another ten hour fathers and I mean, you know how I feel about those things they don't mean anything to me that just words. Now that may be okay for the others, but it just doesn't work for me. I mean, I do something wrong. I just want to pay for my way. So I do my own penance for my own sins. What do you say, huh? Johnny boy, meanwhile, he's doomed because he can't follow the strict rules of the mob life. This is one of the ironies of the mob life, right? It's supposedly free of the law, but there are more rules within it than you would have outside. Johnny boy can't pay his debts. He can't give the respect that is due. He's just incapable of that. And so he's sort of like this fallen angel who gets kicked out of hell. All of this theology is visually emphasized by the throbbing red lights that lighting scheme. We see at the bar where they hang out so much. It's crucial that one of Charlie's voice-over prayers, it actually begins with him in church, but then it ends with that famous tracking shot. One of them that's running along that bar with those devilish lights. So yeah, for me, it's mean streets at the top of my list. I think it's the best film of 73. Yeah, I have it all the way down at number four. Again, how good this year was. I guess we didn't have enough guilt and sin talk when I referenced the exorcist earlier. But you think about this film and I think you really touched on the hallmarks of this movie or what we really still remember as what makes it so great. But you have Scorsese here, like you said, with his second film, his breakout film, taking all these influences, and they're all on display, French new wave, Italian neorealism, cinema verite, but mixing in this rock and roll sensibility and this actual rock and roll unconventional soundtrack. And he's mixing in also his own upbringing and his experiences. And he's making something uniquely cinematic and uniquely personal. Now, this may counter a little bit what you said in terms of it being fully formed. And I want to be clear that we're talking about a matter of degrees here anyway with a great filmmaker and a great film. But I read what Roger Ebert had to say about this movie when he reviewed it 25 years or more after it came out. And he gave it four stars, loved the film. But later in the review, he says, seen after 25 years, mean streets is a little creaky at times. This is an early film by a director who was still learning and who learned so fast that by 19 76 he would be ready to make taxi driver. One of the greatest films of all time, also with De Niro and keitel. The movie doesn't have the headlong flow, the unspoken confidence in every choice that become a Scorsese hallmark. It was made on a tiny budget with actress still finding their way, and most of it wasn't even shot on the mean streets of the title, but in disguised LA locations. But it has an elemental power, a sense of spiraling doom that a more polished film might have lacked. I think ebert's accurate. I think that's fair to say about this film that it doesn't have the polish or all of the confidence that we're going to see in movies like taxi driver and other films that Scorsese is going to go on to make. But that sense of spiraling doom is a great way to put it. It's a movie bursting with energy and of course what I'm about to say is kind of silly because of course it makes sense to suggest to anyone who wants to study film or study filmmaking that it'd be a good idea to watch a Martin Scorsese movie or to watch mean streets. But I was thinking recently about this film and relation to my daughter Sophie, who's taking a film class at college, and even though it's more of a film studies class, the professor also has a background in production and is augmenting the syllabus or adding into the syllabus, these little assignments where the students do have to film and edit their own stuff. And as far as I know, is just having him do it with their phones. So there might be an assignment like develop a sense of space or place through just extreme close ups. That was one assignment. Now they're going to move on to an assignment that's just about using a long take, a single shot. And it did occur to me that maybe that lack of polish that ebert is talking about makes main streets particularly potent and instructive to someone like Sophie or anyone who is making these student projects like this because where to place the camera, how to move the camera, how to use color. How to use music. It's all there, but it also feels in some way maybe as misguided as this is. Almost attainable. Like it's a Gritty enough film. And it is just unpolished enough that you think, oh, okay, well, if Scorsese could do this, I could try to mimic some of this stuff as well. I mean, maybe. It would be a high bar to be to be able to in a first attempt to do some of the stuff that's going on. But I think that's what I mean by, yeah, not entirely fully formed and I think ebert's onto something too in that this movie, this story in particular, I think it's especially with Johnny boy, who's different from someone like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, actually, because there's a chaotic element whereas Pesci's character was unpredictable. And Johnny boy is more an agent of chaos in this film. And in some way, even though the filmmaking is not as fully formed as later pictures would be, it works well to have that character in a slightly chaotic too strong of a word, but a slightly less polished feature.
a16z
"scorsese" Discussed on a16z
"Ultimately what Google does. And YouTube and whether they go into space. I think right now, the only thing that's really preventing them from acquiring content creators is regulation and fear of basically antitrust, whether it's in Europe or in the United States. So advertisers when linear TV goes away, no one wants to watch channels anymore, except maybe news and sports. Power of live and big events will exist. Most boards move to streaming at some point. Like there's this tangle of existing deals, right? But at some point, that works out. And I don't know how long that plays out. Bob, feel free to give us more of your predictions as many as you're comfortable making. What else would you like me to predict? Movie theaters? Movie theater going will never return to its high water mark. So it'll still be a thing, but it'll be kind of this niche activity. Hey, I don't know if we call it niche, but the reason for that is greater competition from basically movie quality television that can be watched in the home. And everything about the home experience where the out of movies that are experienced is pro consumer mobility, basically. Convenience, time, customization, personalization, it all is moving in the direction of giving the consumer more authority and they're going to use it. What do you say to the credit if you read the art critics who say that all of this has hurt the quality of films that you just have superhero movies and you don't have, I don't know what the I'm just laughing at Martin Scorsese. Well, you still have the more Stacey's, but do you have the next generation? Yeah, Martin and Martin did nail us. He and I talked at one point. I like him a lot. Well, first of all, I think we're ignoring the fact that the creativity right now that exists in what I'll call television is phenomenal. It's incredible. So this is just a format change, not a lawsuit. Exactly. A lot of the shows that I watched are not multi season. One season. It's four or 5 episodes, 6 episodes. Sometimes you watch the episodes, even know whether it's coming back for another decision. But it's great storytelling. And you can watch it all in one weekend. Once in one sitting or you can play it out over weeks. So I think, look, if you really want me to predict the other, I said, advertisers are going to prevail streamers will prevail. Consumers will prevail, creators will prevent it. Yes. It's a great time for creators. They're anxious now. Because the disruption and how they get compensated and how they get measured, what they created. That too shall pass. And it will be figured out. And they will have access to more consumers, more shelf space. There's more shelf space for creators to create on. I started a time when there were three TV networks. And movie theaters. That was it. Now, look at the world out there for creators. There used to be, by the way, if you had made movies and you turned to TV, you were pariah. Yeah. You know, you've come down a lot. That's not the case anymore. A great movie makers are making plenty of television. I would argue about TV and how it's great right now. That's also because in TV, the creative, the showrunner is prime. And that's a very different model than a lot of what's been playing out in the past with movie structures and I think it actually reinforces your point that it's about the creator's vision or even like the Pixar vision of the director vision first.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Rudy Giuliani: Watch the Film 'Taxi Driver'
"Because there you go. At the end at the end of my administration, I did a couple of retrospectives on the administration. So I would show the scenes and taxi driver of the assassin driving through Times Square. Those were real scenes shut in like 1970, whenever it was 76, 77, 78. This is Scorsese. Brilliant, I'm sorry. Scorsese film, obviously. But De Niro playing that's before we knew De Niro actually was crazy. If you did a good job of acting crazy well, you're looking at me, you're looking at me. So you look at those scenes, there are about four or 5 of them in which you get a big panorama of Times Square. And then you just put it against current ones. That would have been 98, 99, 2000. And one, you see drug dealers prostitutes horrible looking people frightening as hell, drug dens, houses of prostitution, the legitimate, if you call them legitimate pornographic movie theaters where you would pay just go in and watch a movie, had all disappeared. It was too dangerous for them. The movie theaters had turned into actual brothels. So even the porn industry didn't feel it was worth investing in the pornography had moved to other parts of the city because it was too dangerous to have it in Times Square. It had crime rates that were almost impossible to keep up because they would take bodies and hide them. And literally, literally, on one day during the middle of my campaign, we were driving somewhere. I told them to stop the car, I got out in the middle of the street and my campaign manager Peter powers thought I was nuts to traffic was going back to back and forth. And I said a little prayer, and I said, if I do one thing is mayor, I'm going to change this
Cinemavino
"scorsese" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Number one gross movie. I will agree. I mean, to me, if you look at all the films I watched, which were, and I'm going to throw in films nowadays with series streaming. Streaming that are also going to be like episodes that are going to be hour long. I got to say that I still think Spider-Man was the best and was not nominated. I agree. Yes, that's the difference. Honestly, if you look back at our podcast 2021, you know, we reviewed some of these movies we reviewed. Don't look up. We had Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home. We were all 9 or ten out of that movie. Yeah. And it didn't get nominated here? Yeah. But look at the academy voters, like, I mean, let people like Brian who are voters in the academy, Brian De Palma, Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese. Coppola Scott, they vote the bitch about these movies all the time. But things change. The academy does not have a good track record of being progressive. So we were raised on Raiders of the Lost Ark. And the next generation, they will be raised on Maguire or all the Spider-Man films. That'll be their starting point. Yeah, look at Raimi memes on Reddit. The entire subreddit of Raimi memes is nothing but Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire memes. Returning to the original point like that you guys are talking about it's like the Oscars love to mix it up because they've always loved to put like a Rick commercial series of blockbusters like ET next to the movie it lost to you, which is Gandhi. And I want to hear of you guys have any of you guys watched Gandhi. Oh yeah. That's true. Oh, no. No, I have not. And I believe I remember it. I remember watching it on TV. No, no, no. Strike that reverse it. I believe it was rented. Rented it, Gandhi? Yep. Two PHS yikes. Two VHS. It was Titanic style. Rented on two right. I was like, it wouldn't TV. It was to the HSE. I mean, they do love to mix, like, for example, ordinary people in 1980, directed by Robert very much more of a crowd pleasing drama against raging bull, Martin Scorsese. And raging bull did not win, even though that's now being held one of the best movies ever made. They gave it to the more commercial ordinary people. And you see that all the time throughout the Oscars you'll see very commercial movies mixed in with very much like art house movies. You'll see they love to mix and match. And you kind of see that here. You do..
Revision Path
"scorsese" Discussed on Revision Path
"And I certainly won't claim to get it right a 100% of the time, but I can see how my history as a journalist coming to treasure these things and learning how to form these opinions and thoughts. In such a way that I could share them with others and have them be disagreed with or agreed with or spark interesting discussion. It was an incredible training ground and I'm so thankful that I had the opportunity to come up through that direction. What do you ultimately want to accomplish as a game developer? It certainly sounds like one your faith factors a lot into your work just in terms of how you approach the games and it sounds like even the mechanics and the whole ethos behind it, but then also you've mentioned earlier about wanting to provide just a more holistic game development experience, like at the end of the day, like when all of a sudden done, I'm using a bunch of different metaphors here, but what do you want to accomplish as a game developer? Is there like a bigger goal or message that play here? The average game developer career lasts about three years. If there's anything I accomplish in my lifetime as a commercial artist as a creative professional, I want to see the average career length for someone working in games. To be 20 years, 30 years, just like Martin Scorsese can be 70, 80 years old, still making interesting films. I want to see games professionals have the same ability to discover what their next story is going to be when the stories they could. They could deliver if their careers just lasted a little bit longer. If they have that ability to hit that next rung in the ladder if they have that ability to fashion their craft that much more, the fact that we get the games of creative potency that we have now, given the relative lack of seniority, we have the ability to accrue in the industry because our mentors are elders are few and far between. I treasure and look forward to a future where we find out what breathtaking things can come into being when people have been making these for 30 years. Instead of three. So overall, like, what are you excited about at the moment? I mean, of course you got a new game that just came out. Of course, congratulations to you on that. But what are you really the most excited about right now? I think the thing is I'm most excited about our honestly the projects. This sounds corny, but it's a project made by my friends and colleagues and peers in the industry right now. James is legitimately a more vibrant diverse, creatively executed and broad communicator of artistic intent than it's ever been..
Cinemavino
"scorsese" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Train wreck. Oh yeah. And I want more of it. Yeah. He yeah, he looks like he's caught in mid transformation becoming the wall. Oh yeah. And I don't know what is behind his smile, but it is both like sinister and welcoming and wonderful. Yeah. It's either one whose hair started like slowly gravitating toward the ceiling as he kept playing. Oh no, that was a different dude. That's a Hudson. Okay. But no. The guy I'm talking about is the guy that's giggling about sliding Bologna in his pants. I want to party with that guy. Yeah. It's like, did you guys think that their stories were, I mean, a little bit icky. Oh, yeah. They made you feel kind of gross. Oh yeah. Like they're going through the studio. It used to be a brothel. And it's just like, you know, you get the film these guys have been with some assorted ladies in their life. They were talking about life on the road and they were like, yeah, what about what about the women I thought we weren't supposed to talk about? Yeah. Oh God. What did they tell them not to talk about? Yeah. Well, anytime you're looking at one of these documentaries, I don't know, for me, I gravitate towards who's the guy I think is the coolest in the band or who would I want to hang out with? And that's leave on. He's got the most interesting stories to me. And seeing him drum and sing at the same time, that is fucking crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was a great documentary. Martin Scorsese seems to I don't know why he decided to leave in all the edits. I was like, oh man, it makes it feel dirtier, more rock and roll. Like them going back and reshaping the interview while they're doing it. Right, yeah. I mean, it was interesting to see because it's like behind the scenes. But also I don't know why you left it in and if he just didn't give him more takes to try it or how many films he had done prior to this, to be able to get to do this, because obviously he seems to be a mega fan and he's doing this and he's just like, man, guys, it's just so cool just to get to hang out. Yeah, thanks for letting me. Yeah. And I have a thought on that, but we'll get Shaun's take. Yeah, it was my first time seeing it. I was actually really surprised because I grew up watching a lot of music documentaries. I watched a lot of live concerts. I had Led Zeppelin live. I had a ton of different G three DVDs, this is one that never really hit my radar for some reason..
Cinemavino
"scorsese" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Yes. That was public domain sound effect. I'm very thrilled to see that a lot of Christmas carols and public domain so I can start busting those out for you. Very exciting time. So you didn't go out of your you didn't get slay bells yourself, and no. That was a perched off of or not purchased by taking off a public domain website. So. Nice. Happy Thanksgiving house. Exactly. So yeah, we're doing a special Thanksgiving episode here for the holiday. We're going to do a Thanksgiving movie. A lot of people may not realize this is a Thanksgiving movie, but the last waltz documentary by Martin scorse. About or by Marcos. And so yeah, it's Thanksgiving Day in 1976. Legendary band last waltz. Legendary band. The band. Yeah. Played their final concert at the winterland ballroom, San Francisco on that day. Even though they later got back together in a different form, they never that group never got met together. Original music. Did they reform as a band? Yeah, basically. They just changed her indefinite article at the beginning of it. They actually the main guy Robbie Robertson never played with them again. And then so they hired other guitar players at other songwriters and they brought them in. Was that the guy that you thought was the main character the whole time? Yeah. He was like, that was like death. But it was like compelling and had a good speaking board. Most charismatic in the group. Yeah. He and that was a big complaint and a source of bitterness later was they felt that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, the main he was the lead songwriter and lead guitarist. They felt that they edited the documentary to favor him. Oh yeah. And they totally do. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but at the same time, like half of the people in the band when they talk, you're just like, oh, this person is spaced. Yes. Wolfman damn. What's his name? Garth Hudson. Yeah. Yeah, the piano man. Oh, that's a Richard Manuel. Yeah. Yeah, the piano dude was on drugs. I mean, I think the whole entire time. Richard Manuel is the wolf guy you're thinking about. Hudson is the organist. So they have a piano player in an organist. Okay. Yeah. And they're both not okay. Bizarre looking. Yes. It was the 70s. Yeah. I know, right? So everything was just normal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's how most rock man looked. Very homely. But yeah, that was a source of bitterness for them after the band broke up was they felt that it favored him. Robbie Robertson Scorsese became a really good friends after that. And Robbie Robson provided the music to a ton of Scorsese movies after that in the 80s and 90s. Kind of served as a musical director for a lot of Scorsese movies. So they became buddies and I think it made the other guys the man feel a short change in this documentary. So yeah, so basically that started out originally, Robbie Robertson wanted to disband the group. And end it. And so he goes to a guy named Bill Graham, who was this big rock manager who interesting the interestingly enough would later die in the same helicopter crash. It killed Steven Raymond. They were both at the same chopper. Shit. Yeah, in 1990. So they asked Bill grant organized this gig at the winterland ballroom, which is where they played their first gig as the band..
KUGN 590 AM
"scorsese" Discussed on KUGN 590 AM
"Network, which is trying to make it to the next. Big thing. I don't know what will cost to stream it, it'll it'll cost an additional fee. But I got to tell you. That is somewhat of a surprise that Universal has now gone the route of Disney. And one of brothers the goal of the day to day to be learning their lesson. The public the public is now telling you they want to go back to the movies. So why are these guys flying in the face of that? Look at the results of last weekend? The box office you were even surprised. Yeah. What did the other is? Listen, we said we we've talked about this for the last year. Universal Pictures is an old studio. They've done business with theaters for over 100 years, and they have all used this horrible scenario. Of the pandemic and post pandemic to just take chances on their business model and turn it completely blind eye on the multiplies isn't theater owners and it really is. Uh, pretty sad situation of just caring about one side of the fence when they're really equal partners, uh, for the last 100 years and going down the road because they need movie theaters to really have a strong, sustainable Business model for $200 million movies. It's just not going to work. Uh, data days. It's not the model that they really want to do it because they're trying to grab every last dollar. During this during this period. It's sort of it's perplexing and said very perplexing. I'll tell you the time. There's a movie out this week that you're going to talk about this weekend called a card counter. With Oscar Girl Isaac rising, good actor, very solid actor probably most recognizable from the Star Wars movies. He plays a very strange worked character in a movie that is so distracting and distressing. There were two movies in this One good movie that you could do about a card counter and then some other guy who's deranged and why they trying to tell that story together. I was so confusing so awful that I get up and left. So really, you know, it's interesting because it was. I believe it was directed and written by a guy named Paul Schrader, who wrote Mark Scorsese's taxi driver. This guy goes back a long time. You also directly producer Scorsese, right producer This Paul Schrader also did a movie in the seventies with George Scott called Hard for Uh, they don't make movies like that. Definitely and in theaters anymore, But he hasn't. He's been around this guy Paul Schrader for very, very long, long time. Hard shakes out. Alright, chucker. Thank you Have a good weekend 59 past the hour..
Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"scorsese" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"You know we all come from a couple of strains here either coming from the strains of people sell food on the corner there the people trying to make their lives in factories in living in tenements or though the people that eventually joined some sort of organized crime unit for whatever reason that's stemmed from from those branches of our culture that's the roots of who we are in america is up to be ashamed about. It's nothing run away from obviously something to glorify one way or the other. It's who we are. all right. Next was a great question. Why a great comment thank you of like open. My eyes a little bit and help the might me a little bit more sometimes when you do a show like this. You're trying to learn things to remind other people every so often something comes back to help some light and you well. I think that did that coming appreciate it. I know you mentioned it. But it should be repeated. Again de la slanted. Italian focus came from a tiny directors and actors coppola scorsese pacino deniro. And they held up and they should be held accountable for building. Somebody's negative images deniro made his bones beaten up people on film. While pacino time bomb people can't wait to see explode and with scorsese interviews claiming he doesn't make violent films explores her story and coppola with his better than italian. Does this stuff than a non italian. We might not need hollywood enemies. We got plenty of our own. We are acting like a bunch of momo's momo's one of those italian street terms meaning that you You walking around In your pajamas would no brain. That's part of the perjury of definition of it. It can go into other directions. Most which don't wanna mention on the show. Okay all right yes you're right. It's something that doesn't talk about. I i remember somebody action al pacino about that and he's generally said you know in a half hardaway again this from truth to that extra narrow and he probably wants to punch you. He wants to punish everybody. Apparently on on on offscreen. So yeah not helping us tim general. But i appreciate you being out there. You know comet down please. And i agree about the directors. I mean they're very cavalier about that for someone to say i valley vine films all the time. But i'm i'm not really making volume films of dislike calling the story really. Okay miss cousy. How can go over there and punch you in the face okay. What are you doing it for why. That's not violent. I'm just telling the story. The story of punt scorsese in the face see doesn't sound like great now. Does it when it happens to you so with you know. Not being sold denial that it gets ridiculous array elise coppola is saints up to that is business like at least he makes some kind of a point. I don't completely agree with the point zeno. I've heard it before from black directors. Well i gotta do this. Because if i don't i got white people gonna tell us my story and they're going to mess it up even worse i go but you got an were running around..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"scorsese" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Wage, definitely is, you know, but you know, like obviously we all see the mob movies and everything else is, is the mob as powerful as it once was Well, yes, but the mob is not at all what you think it is. So once you once everyone understands what it really needs is, then you can see the power and the reach it has now. And that it's really the, the economy, the second economy of organized crime. It dwarfs our own and that it does. And so it really is about the money. It really, the problem is the money, they you know, this crime syndicates off, make their money off of human misery. So that's why we all feel so miserable right now is because someone's really profiting off of it and unless we can sort of stopped them and disrupt their money. We're only get experience more and more human misery cuz those two things go together. So now the mafia as as people has been glamorized By my town, right in books and film and television that had it. Sarah, we've had it, Sarah. It wasn't ever what, folks, thought it was to the beginning, but some of it it was like, you were kind of people, like, Scorsese would take you into one little facet in a massive thing and just, you know, take you into a couple of characters and and but that is not at all. What organized crime? Really truly is or else has been. It's just a glimpse at that certain characters and and a tremendous amount of Mythology it is never ever, ever been that only attack it's ever? It's never been that. That's all. That's all a room. Oh really never only been Italians. Never never and and it's not that they only hurt each other. They've always heard others. Always? And, and they also those two things are big mess. And it's, it's important to knock those down and and correct me if I'm wrong, but the mob always had politicians in their pocket. Correct started with politicians. Yeah..
Pop Culture Leftovers
"scorsese" Discussed on Pop Culture Leftovers
"And got the i. I didn't say scorsese jake nolan's pretty allergic to to the last two people. I want to watch any mmc. You fucking thing with is stephen. Dorf and scorsese. I'll watch it. With scorsese he saw moby asleep five. Jay drying fuck in on his face. Aiding is pockets original guys. Thank you so much this. You know what jake i cannot see us. When loki season two comes up. I can not see us not doing bon asserts until i can't promise i can kind of see it..
UnCommon Law
Section 230: The Law That Made It Possible for Facebook and Twitter to Thrive
"Thing that actually made it possible for companies like facebook or twitter or youtube to exist and grow with something called section two thirty of the communications decency act which was passed into law in nineteen ninety six so what problem was section to thirty designed to fix the reasons extra to thirty even came to be was because they were to lower court decisions that held two opposite things k. One involved in old online platform called. Compuserve compuserve combines the power of your computer with the convenience of your telephone to bring you hundreds of online services like a complete set of encyclopedias for those of you who don't remember the nineteen nineties. Compuserve was one of the earliest internet service providers. It also hosted several online forms as well as the third party. Newsletter called rumor ville so in nineteen ninety. Rumor ville published some disparaging remarks about arrival newsletter. And this is perfect called scuttle but which was owned by cubby inc. In addition to suing rumor ville cubby also sued compuserve alleging that as publisher compuserve was also liable for the statements of its authors and the court in the compuserve case called covey versus compuserve. Said that a third party post on compuserve did not make copies reliable So in other words because compuserve didn't moderate content on its platform it could not be sued for libel that is since compuserve was merely a distributor of defamatory statements. It wasn't responsible got it. So what was the other case. And the other involved. Old online platform called prodigy named the case was stratton oakmont versus prodigy. Stratton oakmont as some listeners. May recall was the subject of the martin. Scorsese film wolf of wall street. Where leonardo dicaprio played straightens pill-popping ceo jordan belfort. I've been richmond. And i have been a poor man was rich but on my compuserve perje was held liable because it had taken a small editorial role in deciding what content got on its platform or not so it was these two decisions that were completely at odds with each other that caused two members of congress then representative christopher cox from california and then representative now. Senator ron wyden from oregon to say. Look if we're going to have an internet that flourishes where everybody can speak we need to fix this.
AP News Radio
Robert De Niro Says Leg Injury May Prevent Tribeca Fest Appearance
"A veteran Oscar winning actor is going to be laid up for a bit the Nero is likely to be office feed for a bit after suffering a leg injury while working on a movie in Oklahoma the two time Oscar winner was at work on the upcoming Martin Scorsese film killers of the flower moon he has since returned to his home in New York in an interview promoting the upcoming tribeca Film Festival deniro says he managed to rip a ligament in his squad and it needs to be re attached to his knee otherwise he says he's fine and the injury is manageable what may not be so manageable his appearance at the Film Festival that he co founded it's due to begin June ninth deniro says with this pending surgery he isn't quite sure how he'll be able to get around during the festival I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
Fresh Air
Stories About Mothers, Featuring Trevor Noah
"Sunday is mother's day and we're going to listen back to some great stories about mothers. we begin with. trevor noah. Host of comedy central's the daily show. He south african the son of a black mother and white father. Their relationship was legal. Under apartheid which mandated separation of the races noah grew up during the apartheid and post apartheid errors. He became famous in south africa as a comic and tv personality and spent years traveling. The world doing standup. He talked terry in two thousand sixteen. So racial identity is a big part of your comedy. When you're doing stand up. Your father is white. Your mother is black. Your father is i. Think of swiss and german ancestry. Do i have that right. And your mother sosa casa. Thank you. I don't think i can do that. And i know your mother was jailed briefly. I hope in south africa. I assume four for opposing apartheid for doing some kind of dissenting action. Yes well the sensing action was being with a white person. Who was the white person your father. The s he was jailed so no no no. no white. people didn't get jailed for that. That was Why people were warned not to do it again. But then if you're a black person called fraternizing across country boundaries. Then then you'd be arrested but my mom. My mom opposed the system as a whole so. She never let that stand in her way. You know and i. I think i pick up a lot of i. I have a lot of my mom's demeanor is that she never even even when she told me the story. She wasn't an angry she just went. It's it's a stupid thing. And so i refuse to listen to. Its but she never came at it from a place of anger. If anything should defied it and she didn't she didn't give it the credibility that it was trying to create in in the world
Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
The Things Smart Sellers Must do in 2021
"Real estate podcast. Show dot com. What are the smartest sellers of the summer right now. It's spring of twenty twenty one. So what are the smartest sellers of the summer and fall doing their signing up. There are already signed up many of them. They know that time is the bast best thing you can have on your side when you're getting ready to make a really great grand opening okay. A scorsese movie does not come out two weeks. After it's made the buildup can be years the grand opening the coming soon attraction The previews the storytelling. It's all a work in progress. The same exact thing happens with every one of my smart sellers This year and in years past and more than ever there are people that are going to be looking at your property and wanting to hear the full story about it. Not just the mls details not just the four hundred sixty characters they get to read. They want to hear the real story going right back to when it was built going back to when you did the kitchen and all the details. All that kind of stuff is what people really love here. And it's just not being told saw the smart sellers. Those of you. Who are out there. Were getting ready to make a move in the next game in the next season or two. Now's the time to get started. Now is the time to sign on you go to home dot real estate podcast. Show dot com. You find out of course where you stand right now and you'll get an idea of course of where you are
BBC World Service
Sharon Stone Discusses Her Autobiography in Candid Interview
"It's nearly 30 years since Sharon Stone played Catherine Tramell in the film Basic Instinct. It was a role she craved, but only managed to get after 12. Other actresses turned it down. It became a huge box of his hit on that infamous uncross ng and crossing of the legs scene remains one of the most controversial and talked about moments in film history. The movies that followed include an Oscar nomination for her role in Scorsese's casino alongside Robert DeNiro. More recently, the Laundromat with Meryl Streep on on the small screen. There was last year standout performance in the Netflix series, Ratchet. At the height of her career in 2001, having had several miscarriages on day after adopting her first child, Sharon Stone, suffered a stroke and almost died. She's now written her autobiography, the Beauty of Living twice in it. She talks about the fact that some people saw her as a very strong, difficult woman and how upsetting that's peanut times as she told the BBC's Emma Barnet. We think what it really is, is that I don't have the capacity to lie, and I think that people find that quite off putting And when I tell the truth that can seem quite offensive or the favorite Hollywood word difficulty. I do feel that in business. We're often put in positions that we didn't ever see ourselves being put in. And they're often crisis moments where we have to reconsider. I'm in this position. Now. What am I going to do with regards to the me to movement? Now are a couple of years on from that deep do you actually think Because the other thing you talk about being the only woman on set, you know men were doing your hair. Men were doing your makeup. Do you think it has got any better? Yes, because legally, they're just things that cannot be explained away anymore. You just can't say why can't she have a female dresser?
Tony Katz and the Morning News
Jamie Foxx to play Mike Tyson in boxer's take on his life
"Scorsese will be the Executive producer. The serious we'll take a look at the boxer Mike Tyson's life as a whole. I'm John Herrick on the level on the going on w Why. D c dot com Virginia William Hill, America's number one sports book is now here Way have a
Reel Chronicles
"scorsese" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"Most promising newcomer was nominated for actor direction picture editing. Dga scorsese was nominated golden globe. The move Both the narrow and jodie foster war nominated the the oscars deniro nominated jodie foster nominated. Herman nominated picture. No says scorsese in director or yup. Yeah that that to this day pisses me off the. He didn't get that the mood and get any love and no screenplay nomination either which is bananas. So let's get to a fellas age. Bess leo kick off New york crime poverty.
F That Noise
Episode 56: Best/Worst Remakes and Jamie Sings! - Drive Of THe Week
"We start every episode with drive of the week if you don't know what a drive is dr a line from a movie or a tv show said with exceptional velocity and volume and this segment belongs to jamie klein. All right ladies. Gentlemen and fucking michael g lombardo. The nineteen ninety five classic. Martin scorsese masterpiece casino. Oh casinos starred the great robert deniro. Joe patchy sharon stone don rickles and kevin us and so we seen. I was going for casino. This is a good drive by sharon stone. Whose nominated academy award for. The film was quite good and this is a good drive that she says to her husband played by robert deniro keith. Takeaway shoulder beaver out of your hair. She calms down. I will let it roll down. I will let her house for five minutes if you gentlemen. Were escorted her out if she happens to not want to leave. Because i don't like that's fine. She gets middling now so good of a dry because she says right to lean so good. Yeah try so much impact at her career win right down the toilet afterwards. Once he did that she's in film hall of fame assche to but if you look what more does she want. But if that i agree with the rest of that i agree all those nominations. Forget it drive of the week. I agree i agree but like if you listen closely now she says fine with a soft s and then she digs in for the fuck. You fine fine. She worked with their accent code. Find really be mad at someone to drive. Something i actually. I don't know if you do. Okay that's fair. Well pete you're man of principle and i applaud you for to digging your heels standard around mmediately buckled on that. That was the driver of the week brought to you by trash. Men media for the latest blu ray. Dvd commentary and reviews had a trash man media dot com and also on facebook and twitter. I just wanna add. Also we just got some new reviews by tyler stephenson just recently posted yours truly and we also have one from travis north. That just got posed a lot of good reviews. Check it out. Also don't forget to check out meet up deserve to step back latest news and absolutely noble shit. Wait i might. Mike was
Morning Edition
Finding the Judas in Judas and the Black Messiah
"The 19 sixties, Fred Hampton was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. He was a rising leader, organizing disparate multi racial groups in Chicago. Until police shot and killed him and another Black Panther member in an early morning raid. There's a new movie about Fred Hampton out this week, it is called Judas and the Black Messiah. It's not a question of ball. It's a non violence is a question of resistance to fascism or non existence within fascism Film got rave reviews after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week. It's the second feature from director Shaka King who, until this project came along, was on the verge of giving up making feature films altogether. MPR's Andrew Lyne bonked takes it from here. Yes, Judas and the Black Messiah is about Fred Hampton and how he led the Black Panthers in Chicago. But it's also about William O'Neill, the man who infiltrated the Black Panthers in spied on Hampton on behalf of the FBI. Shaka King told me that the Lucas Brothers who co wrote the story, sold the idea to him like this. Their pitch that they laid out was we want to make a movie about Fred Hampton and William O'Neal. That's kind of like the departed the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie Inside the World of Cointelpro, or Counterintelligence program, the 19 sixties project where the FBI infiltrated and disrupted groups like the Black Panthers, and I was like I see it. I'm done. I'm in Judas is a tight, intense movie. Yes, like the departed and other Scorsese type crime movies. It's a long way, though, from King's first feature film newly weeds from 2013. So what you got here? Newly weeds tells the story of a young couple in Brooklyn who smoke a lot of weed where Judas is loud and fast. Really? Weeds is quiet and tender. I'm done. I'm done online. Won't want Wanna hang out. We hang up. Yeah. How are we supposed to go to the Galapagos? If you mind the bag every two minutes. It hits similar beats as movies by other indie darling directors like Joe Swanberg or the Duplass Brothers. The film Independent Spirit Awards even gave King the Someone to watch award after it came out, which came with a $25,000 grant. Not bad for someone fresh out of N Y. U film school. But after that initial fanfare, I was so depressed after making newly weeds and my expectations for the release just not coming to fruition. The movie didn't get much attention outside the festival circuit from agents and distributors, largely because it was a movie with black actors who no one knew on at that time that was deemed worthless. The film's release in 2013 wasn't that long ago, but it was just before what a friend of Kings jokingly dubbed. The Black Excellence Industrial Complex. You're Selma's and Moon Lights and Black Panthers when movie studios realized they could make a lot of money by releasing films by and starring black people. Nearly weeds. Loss of momentum burnt king out on the idea of making another feature film, But he did have an idea for a short rolling around in his head. It was kind of silly kind of outrageous, sweetheart. Lips. Excuse me, miss. It's called Moon Yang's after the Italian slur for black people want heard on the streets of Brooklyn in it, King and two others play these three black guys who talk like they're in the mom movies. King has such a fondness for It was somewhat inspired by King's experience growing up in a mostly black part of Brooklyn, but going to high school in South Brooklyn, where everyone the Irish Americans, Greek Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, all talks like the Italian American kids, and those kids were Hilarious. They were profane. They were quick witted, and we were not friends put like I could appreciate their sense of humor. The movie is a concise examination of race, gender gentrification. As King's character gets into an argument with his sister over a MetroCard, you did not have a dime. Put 1000 until the white guy comes by and says hi to the sister. Hi. How you doing? How are you? You guys just don't know what both outta here. Oh, Polluted the movie is fun and poignant, and the process reminded King how much he loved making movies. That movie saved me. You saved me. I didn't see that or know that about Shaka. But I could understand, and I could see how that could happen. Charles de King, no relation to director Shocking is the CEO and founder of Macro which since its founding in 2015 has produced movies and TV shows featuring non white people, including Judas and the Black Messiah. It was before the oscarssowhite moment. Of 2015. There's a lot that's happened since then. There is much more of an openness and I think an understanding of the business opportunity there. Which brings us to King today, making a movie about an anti capitalist black radical at a very capitalist Hollywood studio without watering down the politics. The deal is to respect the authenticity. Fred Hampton Jr is the current chairman of the Black Panther Party, Cubs and son of Fred Hampton. He says he and the other Panthers had their guards up when they were approached about this film. The Panthers have long been subjected to propaganda campaigns and misrepresentations. But he says King and the rest of the cast and crew definitely navigated the crossroads between their creative goals and the Panthers. Political ones. Well enough, anyway. Revolutionaries never satisfied. You know, I wish there was more political cartoon. We could've pushed. In a certain point, However, I'll put the people's need before before my needs my wants and desires. For instance, the relationship between Fred Hampton and his partner, Deborah Johnson, was a tricky thing to get right. The poet.
MyTalk 107.1
"scorsese" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Getting asked questions by Martin score, says he who could not be laughing more consistently or harder throughout the whole thing. And then so they did a sketch about what the show is really like. And by the way, I thought that the friend Liebowitz impression was quite good going. Yang Yeah, a male cast member. Portraying her. It was very funny. The hair the outfit market spirits score says you just laughing so hard. The whole time was just fantastic. Here's a little bit of it this week that the New York City could reopen indoor dining by mid February. Here to comment are stars of the Netflix show pretended to city Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese. Way are you doing, friend? And Marty is not gonna have you both here, Please. I think show bored at home. I was about to get married to my cufflinks. Let me tell you. I've done so many interviews in front of audiences. I have squatter's rights at the 92nd Street. Y okay. Well, I love the serious because to you just sitting and talking and Marty just losing his mind Price. He asked me my range. I said, I can sit and I can sit down. Please talks. They were Children and asked me. Should I be a writer? Should I be a filmmaker? I say no. Should be something useful. Be a piece of melon wrapped in prosciutto cadences. Kyle Mooney is my heart's courses. Oh, what a great impression was. Does anybody get it? And I know because not that many. I mean, I don't know how popular that show is. Maybe maybe it's I think has been trending at some point on Netflix. You know, like on the most popular clicked at some point, maybe I don't know. Well, whatever it is now, if you didn't know about the show, and you go and turn it on now, you will realize that that Fran Lebowitz impression is so great that you're exactly right. Done the cadence, the like the What's the word here, The up and down on the voice. There's a word for that. Inflection. That's the one is perfect. And truly when you watch the special You essentially just keep thinking respectfully and lovingly. Why is Martin score says even here? I know it's just to get just like this person is worth laughing at because we respect him. Yeah, right. Since he thinks she's funny, then we automatically think she's funny. You know, it is interesting about that. I am always wondering. OK, so you always see. Martin's crew says he's back right and then you see her, but she's not looking at him. She's looking the other way. She's always looking to her left to the other person that's there for they never named a I see this other guy go. Who is that? Yeah. Who's that guy sitting there? Because she's talking to him. You should be something useful. A piece of melon wrapped in pursuit of that. Very funny. I just hope it was my favorite thing about it is that I wasn't really no, I hated it. I didn't even like the machine gun Kelly performance. There was one sketch that I really feel like It. It Was not good. It was tone deaf. It was a bullying sketch, and John Krasinski plays this quarterback of the high school team. And he comes and finds that his you know, kind of puny little brother is being picked on by people out in front of the school. In the school yard, right? So he goes to defend his brother and listen at what happened. Oh, what's up, Loser? What you're eating there? I slipped a little comic book. Oh, what's a bangle? Give it back. Are you What?.
710 WOR
"scorsese" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Kid, and they show that brilliant Martin Scorsese shot You See, the shoes of the guy says they step out of their cars. I go from rags to riches. Great moment. The movies. All right. We've got the snowstorm barreling through and well, tomorrow's a big day, of course for Ray Stage it because How else can you get us forecast tomorrow's ground Hog day, And I guess it's all gonna be virtual this year Punctured Tony Phil, Staten Island, Chuck. They'll all be virtual, but you'll be able to watch a race staging at the way the channel get your forecast, so they'll still work out for you. Yeah, I will. And you know, preliminary indications are is no shadows. The clouds are still gonna be sticking around. So no shadow means an early spring, But you could be out. Cool. Clean enough will looks to be, um biggest storm we've had in quite a few years. I can't believe it's been. Excuse me. I can't believe it's been five years since Central Park's had 1 Ft of snow but time wise, that's amazing yet we had 10.5 from that storm in early December. This one's probably gonna give us I'm thinking total. 16 18 with some 20 plus totals North Jersey and up through Putnam or in solving counties and maybe even to the Westchester County around. I'm going to say 12 18 inches in southwest Connecticut Coast. Larry's little less And long, I wouldn't maybe total possibly 8 to 12 inches North shore. Maybe he's seen a little bit more than that. We've got to be concerned about what we'll do here in terms of mixing. If there is going to be any rain or sleet mixed in if that starts happening Then your total's may come down a little bit, but I'm still we've already seen now officially at Central Park were probably closer to seven or 7.5 inches as of two hours ago, 6.5 coming in there, So those totals just mentioned, including what's already fallen so decent storm with winds gonna rip. Near blizzard conditions later this morning into the afternoon right now, just seeing all blue on my radar out over the ocean, some green and yellows, But for now Long Island, Connecticut Five boroughs, North Jersey Everybody snowing moderate even heavy at times winds gusting 30 plus MPH in the winter storm warning will be in effect as the snow continues through the day. Now. It will continue tonight, but more occasional and more scattered snow showers tomorrow so Most of that snow Those totals coming in during the day today into this evening, and then the lighter snow tonight, tomorrow at the additional, probably three or four inches, so that's cumulatively. Through the event. Still, it is going to be nasty, the worst of it mid day into the early afternoon, starting at about this point, steady T even heavy snow. But as I said, guys, if where you are you start getting a little sweeter. Rain mixed in your total's may be held down, but I think 20 plus North, northwest Jersey, southeastern New York state, So so the place is like maybe, um, West Milford Pearl River up near.
Trent365
Use Books (And The Internet) As A Door, Not A Mirror
"Well i just finished a number. Netflix series lockdown is certainly helped me. Take care of my to do list on netflix. If nothing else and this time it was the series. Pretend it's a city which is a short interview series. Between martin scorsese director. And fran liebowitz the american author and humorist and fran is a lover of books and in this series. She talks about her love of book several times but one of the lines that really grabbed me was way. She said that a book should really be a door into a new world. And that's the beauty of reading books particularly when you're young it's a chance for you to escape the world. You're in a chance for you to go into another fantasy world or at least to learn about another different world. And i guess the inference in a lot of what she was saying was that. That's what's missing today because we're not reading books like we should or as like we used to and i think it's an interesting comparison to the internet because these days in the internet. We're all stuck into this world of social media which oftentimes thanks to the algorithms of course is really a mirror. It's a reflection of what we are interested in what we like and what we do. It doesn't necessarily show us new things over time. And that's the serendipity that fran talks about in this series as well of walking into a bookstore and just discovering a book opening it up using that as the door into this new world. Learning something that you did not know so. I think the comparison really is apt in today's world. And i think we should be using books as we should the internet and social media and everything else that lives on the internet as a door not just as a mirror that reflects who we are and what we are and it's something you may recall. He's got a very good memory. I spoke about way back in episode fifty to this show where i spoke about the need for businesses in general to look out the window. Not look in the mirror with her that we should reflect. We should take a good look at ourselves in the mirror but that is only gonna show what we already know will show us the image of what we already have but if you look out the window and have a look at what's going on around you you can actually learn a lot more. And it's basically the same point as frame was saying in this series. It's on netflix. Check it out. Pretend it's the city pretty funny actually or
WNYC 93.9 FM
"scorsese" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Twitter at Melville Trust. This is NPR. Welcome back to Bull side. I'm Jesse Thorn. I'm talking with actor Isaiah Whitlock Jr He's performed in movies like Goodfellas and 25 Bloods. He played state Senator Clay Davis on the wire, and he's starring in the New Showtime. Syriza, Your Honor. Let's hear the rest of our conversation. You have a really wonderful start to your career on film. Here I am DP in your Wikipedia list two films in which you appeared in 1990, both of which Are profoundly beloved cult classics. One is Goodfellas and the others. The other is gremlins to the new batch. I have actually seen gremlins to the new batch. More recently, I saw that about eight months or a year ago. It's pretty amazing movie. Uh, can you tell me? Can you tell me how it came to be that you ended up in two pretty big movies to start your career, albeit in in in small roles. Gremlins two. I think I was like a fireman or something that might have been like the first her second movie that I that I did. I was really like trying to scratch things out. But Goodfellas was interesting because Had become a member of the actors studio. And Paul Newman was looking For some people to come over to his apartment and read the color of money. Uh, with Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise. And I went over to to the part, but terms I'm sorry. I'm busy. Hey, plan, not new man a date, So it's like, Look, you know, I gotta go over to Paul's, uh, apartment and sit on the couch and read and he had a handful of people there and we're all sitting around and we're and we're reading the color of money. And of course, I wanted a part in the movie. And I didn't get a part in the movie. That part went to force Whitaker, but When good fellas came around. Went to audition for good, fellas. I got an audition for good fellas. And I got a call back and I got called back for Can't remember the actor's name. But the scene is when he's comes to Joe Pesci with the bill and Pesci hits him over the head with the bottle. He owns the restaurant or whatever. And I thought, what? There's no way they're going to cast B. In this part, but I got a callback. So I'm not going to say no. I haven't really done a movie. So I go and Walked in, and Scorsese says I know you from somewhere. And I said, Yeah, I did Those readings on the couch for the color of money. And he says, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. That's great, He says. Well, look, the part you auditioned for You can't play that, But I do have this role of a doctor. It's a very, very small part, but it's very instrumental to the movie. It's the only guy that Henry Hill trust. He's all coked out and everything like that. Do you think you could do that for me? I know it's not much, but do you think you could do that? And inside? I'm saying Act like you've been there act like you've been there and I say Yeah, Yeah, sure. Marty. Yeah, I think I could do that. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, he said with Paul real quick, I'm going over there is a privately right? And that's how I ended up in Goodfellas. But at the time I kind of took it in stride until I started going out and I started telling people Yeah, you know, I got this part in this movie Goodfellas. And that was the big story was. How the hell did you get a part in Goodfellas? Which is called wise Guy at the time. And I was working a job at a restaurant. And there was one guy who actually said Look tomorrow I'm going down. I'm gonna audition for Goodfellas because of you got apart. I know I'm going to get a part. They must just be giving parts away in this movie if they hired you well, needless to say he didn't get apart and Screw him. It's bull's eye. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest is actor Isaiah Whitlock. Junior. Um, your character on the wire. Clay Davis. He was briefly in the first season of the show, right you It was. It was just starting up when you went in. Did you get to read any hole scripts before you went in for that part? Or had you just seen little sides? No. The thing with wire is also very interesting because I was in season one in season two, but I was only supposed to be They're at a cocktail party. There was no story line. There was nothing written. It was just the state senator. After those they decided. Well, we should maybe do something with this. We should maybe do a story line and When they called me to come back. For season three. I initially said no, because I thought it was just gonna be This sort of cocktail party stuff. And I was doing a fellow in Alabama. And I said, No, I can't be bothered. I just I'm not gonna go. And my agent called me, he says. Are you sure said No. I said, I'm too little fellow down here in Alabama. I can't be concerned with some little cocktail party. And, um, they finally convinced me to go and David Simon pulled me aside and said, Now we've got this whole thing set up this whole story line where you're gonna be ripping off the drug dealers and things like that, and they think they're ripping you off and you're gonna be ripping them off, and that's when I got excited about it. But I was never ever on their radar from the beginning. Was the show on your radar. I mean, did you realize by then what it was, You know, not many folks were watching it at the time. Yeah, I did, because I had a lot of friends on the show and You know, I mean, I thought the show was great. I just didn't really at the time just didn't see myself in it. And then when I got on it Could admit this now. My biggest fear was that I said, Don't be the weak link. This is like a great show. Don't be the weak link. Don't be the got, you know, they say Oh, yeah, the wire and then that guy Isaiah Whitlock. Other than that. The show's like fantastic, But I was terrified. I was just terrified. You know, I said this could go One of two ways, but that being said, I had the courage enough to do what I wanted to do. And when I was at the American Conservatory Theater, the artistic director Bill Ball would always say fail big. If you're going to fail, fail big. So I thought, OK, I'm going to fail big and kind of go forward and play what I feel or what I think this character should be. There was a period where I thought I know they're gonna fire me. But then I also thought, you know if they don't like it, they can always cut it. But nobody ever said anything to me, and they just kind of let me Continued to create and it was that freedom that they gave me that allowed me to just even do more stuff and solidify that character. How did you feel the impact of your work on the wire to folks talk to you about it every day every day. It At the end of the wire. David Simon came to me and he said, You know, you know you're gonna have to live with the catchphrase and everything like that. And I didn't believe him. I thought not, You know, a year from now, nobody's gonna Really paid too much attention to it, but There's a few things there one. I had to live with the catch phrase, but I also saw how the character affected people. It's like you're a bad guy, and you're going to make people love you. It would be so easy to just sort of dismiss the character. But The key is to make people like you and make people enjoy you when they see you, and I thought I was able to do that on this show. And then fast forward to today, people still feel that way..
MyTalk 107.1
"scorsese" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Book into Times Square? It's not fair to the books. People want to challenge themselves. I find real life challenging enough just complaining, change anything not so far. I mean, of course, I'm a young woman. She's 70 so funny seems like a really cool show it is to watch. It's an easy watch. And it's in and out, and, uh And again they go from it shot over the course. I don't know how long but they'll be on stage at a theater doing a Q and a with an audience. They'll be alone at a bar just chatting. You actually don't Martin Scorsese is the director of it, And he's technically the one you know, running the show. They're interviewing Fran. But you don't really see much of him outside of him just laughing at things that she says they're old friends, And I guess you know what this reminds. We have a little bit on kind of has a comedians in cars getting coffee vibe to it. They're just conversing, you know, just having a conversation about a variety of topics on like I mentioned yesterday she was a writer for interview magazine. On more of Ah humorist than a standard. She's not right. Right. She's a public speaker who isn't doing one liners. Necessarily. Yeah, she's telling a story. Yeah, you know, she reminded me of In her comedic delivery, huh? Our bus. I was sure that I was like, Oh, she kind of reminds me of B r that he kind of does have how she delivers these lines and a little bit of like the raspy voice. She's very funny. Yes, I kinda gotta you're an idiot Vibe, too. You know that line of like you would take the Dalai Lama one subway subway right to become an absolute lunatic and starts laughing. That's who I was getting vibes of left last night and easy watch. Maybe I'll watch another episode at some point, but again, it's I think seven episodes on Netflix. Yeah, It's not one of those things where you're like I'm gonna binge this. It's like there's nothing going on right now. Queen show like somebody feed Phil we use that is like a Pacer show. I'm gonna watch that. You'll love it. I think that sound. What's that all about? I scrolled past that last night on Netflix will it is? It's Phil Rosenthal, who is the guy behind? Everybody Loves Raymond. It's his show about his family about his family. And he is the most delightful, warm person. Yeah, and he's just a big dork. And so he's doing this food travel show, but you feel so included and he includes everyone like he'll be eating something on the street and just Will come here and pull some random stranger over and go eat some of this. It's so good or killing. His brother is also on the crew, which is so funny how he works his brother in and it's just a very heart warming, different kind of travel food show. That's me. You know, I also saw Okay. That's Netflix. You said Yes. OK, feet first. I got to check that out. Also. I saw that Stanley Tucci has it. I think he has like a food related show. Yeah, Love the Tucci love and he had a really delightful I don't know if it was a trailer or commercial. For his show, But it was just it was just very delightful. Okay, Very good. Now I'm getting too many things. I have to watch the sex scenes and Bridger 10. Gotta watch. Um, What is this? Some kind of city? What is it called? Just pretend it's a city pretended to city And you know what? I just watched yesterday to, um up up up up up to it is cold celebrity. I owe you Remembers to talk about that later on Allison Janney. Was in the episode that I watched yesterday, man. Is she likable? Yes, She is so fun if you didn't like her before you will love her now And when you watch that show, you realize why they Why they offer these Thank you's to these people. That awards shows that we don't know my assistant bill. Now you get why they're talking to Bill because they document the life of these celebrities who have had these assistants, publicists, whatever that they feature in the in the show sometime with the property Brothers on HDTV. And you get it. They've just like lived a life together. Yeah, 20 years you spend with like one person working for you or whatever. And it's just It's a really feel good show. I mean, if somebody did that for me redecorated Tore apart my kitchen and I walked into a brand new, shiny, beautiful. Kitchen that looks like it's out of a magazine. How loved would you feel if somebody did that for you? That would be awesome. So great. So if you guys ever wanted, you know. Oh, we should go way Should we need to take a break? Hey, when we come back if you see something, say something last night, Donna Valentine Sent me an email Elektronik mail sent to my phone said This is hilarious. And I haven't stopped thinking about what I saw since then. So it is an image that will stay with you for ever will tell you what it was when we come back on done and Steve on my talk nothing but good times getting up with Jason and Alexis. I.
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Show 7a "Magic of Hollywood" Redux with Larry Wilson - burst 02
"Film we do a we do a cut away and walks through the door and then we cut to the other side of them come in well it doesn't mean the doorways the same location right right. It's exactly like magic and it's no surprise that serves interesting. Great filmmakers like orson welles huge magic fan interest but it does make sense. What you're saying is i mean. There's the term movie. Magic for a reason will the first magicians Starting up the first. Magicians but the first filmmakers george me as frenchman filmmaker in paris. He was a stage magician. I saw a tv special about him. didn't do the movie man in the moon. Yes yeah and that was all tricks. Well we'll scorsese's films yes scorsese's film. Hugo is about george malays and his origins and he realized it's typical of magicians. He just saw this film medium as a way to do his magic act. Better you know you can do all these tricks. You could shoot him walking onstage. Then stop the camera. Move someone off. Start the camera and they would appear to disappear in the film right exactly so all these. There's a huge huge history film of affects
KQED Radio
"scorsese" Discussed on KQED Radio
"The blackbirds bring rain at all. The bluebirds then agreed to bring the US China again before we can have rain or sunshine. The last forever So the bluebirds and the Blackbirds got too good. Loudon, Wainwright. Vince Giordano, welcome Both of you back to fresh air. I love this album. There's so much joy in that recording that we just heard. I know the song from the rhythm Boys and Paul White men, which had the original recording, I think, unlike 1929, How did you choose it for the album 11 of the songs we did on board? Well, campfire was something that being crossed we have done and it's tough when you go up against arguably The greatest male jazz vocalist of all times, But for some reason, I don't know why, Vince, we decided that Take a crack at it. Wow, it's It's just a fun, uplifting song, and it's not one of those songs that everyone has done. No one has done this since the rhythm boys did it back in the Late twenties, early thirties. No one. Not that I thought that I know of. If anyone would know you would know. I'm sure that definitely so describe this project for us. What's the back story of how you two got together to record this album of music from the twenties and thirties? Well, the first time that Vince and I worked together, I was on a Martin Scorsese movie called The Aviator, his Howard Hughes bio pic. And we sang songs in that movie. And that was spent time in Montreal doing that and in a recording studio, and that was fun. And then is you mentioned we we worked on board. Well, campfire. S so we have a bit of a back story. And then this fella call Randy Poster or Randall poster as he likes to be called and and our old buddy Stuart Lierman. Who those two are guys produced this record, But they had this idea that Vincent I should actually do and out the whole album together. And when that idea was floated, I kind of thought, Yeah, that'll happen. Thanet happened, so it was kind of a wonderful, very happy experience that Started out with those guys Randy and Stuart thinking that it would be a cool thing for us to make a record together. Did you play this kind of music all the time. But Loudon, I don't associate music from the twenties and thirties do with you unless it's kind of, you know, like folk country ish. Music like your Charlie Poole project. So where does this music fit in your musical life? Well, you know, my dad had a great record collection. It was eclectic. It had Folk music and jazz, a lot of Broadway musicals. But I grew up listening to that that stuff and a lot of the songs that wound up on this record, you know. You rascal, you more. I cannot wish you. Um I got them directly from from hearing them as an eight year old, you know, in Westchester listening My dad's spin these these vinyl records. Some people hate their fathers music, but you liked it. I did like it. You know, he loved music and tow. Watch him be enthralled by this great material was It was thrilling for me as a little kid, You know, so I I Aziz you mentioned it's a lot of it is very happy, although some of it is Melancholy and sad. But its overall it's It's very wonderful, joyful music, I'd say. I like that. You're not trying to, like, sing and period You're just singing in your voice, and it sounds so great. I kind of saw it as an acting job. Not to do an imitation of being Crosby butt or something like that. But it just seeing it in my voice, but somehow emotionally inhabit the material. So we asked if you would be willing to perform a couple of songs for us. So you each brought your instruments and you're in a recording studio right now. So, um Would you play Ain't Misbehavin for us and Vince, I think you'll be playing tuba and LADN You actually brought a guitarist with you, David Mansfield, so he'll be featured on guitar. S o. You want to say anything about why you chose ain't Misbehavin? Well, I mean so many people love this song of Fats Waller, you know, was course a great entertainer and His songs. It's It's a great little vehicle, and then people really relate to it. You know, when they're settling down with one person, that's it. I mean, it ain't Misbehavin. We're gonna I'm just gonna hang with you, dear. And of course, it was revived in stormy weather, and I don't know it's it's just just a beautiful tune, Tonto play and sing and let's give credit to the lyricist and the Raza. And also say that you know, one of things I like about this song hearing it now is that it's really about being alone. You know, because you're lovers away, but we're We're so much of we're spending so much time alone or relatively alone right now, Even if we're alone with others, It's not a lot of socializing for a lot of us. So why don't you play ain't Misbehavin for us. The song is on the album, but this is Vince Giordano and Loudon doing a life for us with a guitar assist by David Mansfield. 123.
News, Traffic and Weather
Coronavirus: Hollywood Filmmakers Issue Warning Theaters Are Facing Extinction
"This week. Some of Hollywood's biggest names names joining joining forces forces to to warn warn Congress Congress that that movie movie theatres theatres are are facing facing extinction. extinction. Jason Jason Nathan, Nathan, with with a a story story like like a a plot plot out out of of the the Avengers. Avengers. Dozens Dozens of of Hollywood Hollywood heavyweights heavyweights joining joining forces forces to save movie theaters. Clint Eastwood, Jordan Peele, Christopher Nolan, Lee Daniels, Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig andMe or sending a letter to the leaders of the Senate and the House, asking them to work together on cinema stimulus cinemas. Support millions of jobs, the letter states. But now we fear for their future, and it warns that the country can't afford to lose the social, economic and cultural value Theaters provide multiplexes have been mostly empty since the start of the pandemic.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
Oscars set inclusion standards for Best Picture nominees
"In other news that's rocking La after years of Hashtag Oscarssowhite. The Motion Picture Academy has announced a major rule change to hopefully make the Oscars. Hashtag. So right, the Oscars are making inclusion requirement for best picture consideration starting at twenty, twenty four, those movies must meet diversity requirements in two out of four production categories widening opportunities for underrepresented groups. They include women, minorities, and people with cognitive or physical disabilities promoters of the initiative say the changes will better reflect the diversity of the movie going audience. So this is encompassing the totality of the people that actually work on film. All Shift From now on movies can only be nominated for best picture if they meet certain diversity thresholds wherever Martin Scorsese is right now he is shitting himself. He's probably calling dicaprio begging him to make a plan come on your show. You can't play black you can do anything I know you can personally. I think this opens a bunch of opportunities I. Hope that long running franchises will just switch up the races of people and never address it. Like how dope would be in the next Batman Movie? He's just Jamaican I beat about. What? Did you. See. For. What you want to see if what give him dude my you know what was funny man is soon as the story came out so many people read the headline and they just started panicking bitching online people like this is censorship you can't force filmmakers to create whatever you want I mean, how can you make a period piece with diversity? There were no black people but. You actually read the story before chiming in people would have realised that in fact, these new standards which only take effect in two thousand, twenty four I'm not that strict. For instance, a movie qualifies if it has just one lead role from an underrepresented group and thirty percents of the crew from an underrepresented group as well. Right? Even if it has just thirty percent diversity in the Marketing Department or an internship program for an underrepresented group and by the way. They define underrepresented groups as Black Asian Hispanic Indigenous People, women, the disabled community or members of the Lgbtq community. So in other words, it's super easy to meet this criteria.
/Film Daily
Avatar: The Last Airbender Creators Depart Netflix's Live-Action Series
"Okay, let's start off with A bit of news that I'm sure comes to some disappointment our own ht. What is going on with Avatar the last air bender they were GonNa make a live action TV series for net flicks. What is the update? The latest update is a real bummer for avatars last Air Bender Fans Michael Dante Di Martino and Brian Connie ebsco who created the original acclaimed nickelodeon. Animated Series have parted ways with net flicks over the creative direction of live action remake series. De Martino Post announced in a post on the website titled An Open Letter to Avatar last air bender fans saying that they couldn't control the creative direction of the series and decided to just exit the project altogether and he he had some pretty not I wouldn't say harsh but not. Veiled for in terms of thinly-veiled In like knots unhappiness with Netflix production So he said at one point The project, which is still ongoing has the potential to be good. But what can be certain about is that whatever version ends up on screen, it will not be what Brian and I had envisioned or to make. So this is a massive bummer for Avatar. The last Air Bend Fans because De Martino. Goes involvement in the first place was kind of the reason that There was somewhat cautious excitement for this because these the creators at donors in executive producers for the new Netflix series and they promised or shared rather that they would be deliberate. Choice to a cast as. A people of Color and ethnically accurate to the depictions in leverage animated series and the. The memory of the last live action attempt. Ed Bender is still strong in fans mines, and we don't want a repeat of that. So now that contracts go rhino are gone, there's a lot of fear that the the. Disaster will be. Repeated. Yeah, we shouldn't insinuate that this disagreement it's probably over like the the the racist of casting or anything could be like story or character that we don't even know what the disagreements are over. This is a little surprising to me though because my conversations with filmmakers on and off the record has been that like Netflix's is pretty hands off with stuff. So I'm actually very surprised that big Conflict here I'm curious as a as a fan of Avatar the last air bender now that the creators are known no longer involved in this, would you still be excited to watch live action series not at all? My cautious excitement from before. Has now turned to a sort of read. which not to say that there can you know the situation can't come out the better I'm sure that there are some great. Writers and creators out there who could have an affection for Avatar last bender could. Steer this in the right direction, but it just feels like. Martino and Connie lasko are such a major part of Avatar less air bender and its success in why such great perfect animated show that they're not being involved in stepping way in a in this situation where it seems that they clash with the Netflix's executives in some way can't really know what? I sure what it just doesn't dumb. Bode well for the production at large.
Land of the Giants
Netflix is Hollywood
"Where are we? We are in Los Angeles. We're about to turn onto sunset. Boulevard Hollywood maybe in Hollywood. Okay, so we're. We're approaching. Hollywood hills. Really Tall Palm Trees. So should we explain why we're? We're driving through sunset radio. There's a bunch of billboards here, right? That's what we're. Getting at. Less Ronnie our producers, etc piled, a newborn, took a drive down Hollywood's main drag. It's a traffic jam packed with billboards promoting new TV shows and movies. I've been covering the business of media for a long time, so I served as tour guide for this trip, but Ronnie is a data reporter who mainly writes about tech companies. She doesn't typically pay a lot of attention to what's going on in Hollywood. Here, we have a a the crown net flicks up on the right. Have you watched any of the crown yet? I have not. On the left we have marriage story billboard. This is a Scarlett Johansson. I don't think I want to watch that. You may not be the right person for streaming roddy in a row. We got the Irishman. That's Scorsese's film and then DOLEMITE is my name. Reading that right. Alfie, these are both movies. They're both movies. You can see on Netflix Sega. Any of these this is this is a worthwhile trip for learning. What's on Netflix? You could just actually go to your browser. Are these like already outer. These are like I don't know. Someone like hermetically sealed raising. A drive down, sunset isn't just a chance for Ronnie to see what's coming on. TV, it's a way to watch Hollywood talking to itself, these billboards are messages which are very much directed at Hollywood except now. netflix's doing most of the talking. Stranger things net flix. The politician. Net flicks, one billboard tuna flexible work three Netflix. Netflix well years ago when Netflix was first getting into its own programming. Executive there told me that because they were tech company. They didn't have to do things that traditional media companies do like renting billboards, so it could show big-name talented netflix serious about Hollywood. That guy turns out was wrong. Netflix has decided loves billboards so much that it went out and bought some for itself, and now the company owns many of the signs on the Strip. This, you still look like before streaming. That's one of the main ideas we keep running across as we're working on the series, it's almost impossible to imagine what the world like before Netflix. Even though that time was just a few years ago. If you didn't know any better, you'd think. Netflix's has always been a huge part of Hollywood. Syphilis can be fatal to your baby free. Check that out not flick show. UNCLEAR UNCLEAR? Welcome the land of the giants. The NETFLIX's effect. I'm Peter Coffee. Today. We're talking about how NETFLIX's. Would outsider that no one took seriously took over the town and change the lives of the people in it. Are the CO founder and CEO of Net flicks. I'm going to conduct this interview netflix style. I'M GONNA. Have like five questions you're GonNa love and five thousand. You've never heard. Today. It's given it. NETFLIX's remade. The media. World to companies becomes so omnipresent in our lives that CEO Reed. Hastings even counts as a sort of celebrity. He's a big enough deal for a guest spot Stephen Colbert. You're like one of the big one of those big new media disruptors. Why did the entertainment industry need to be disrupted? Just for the fun of it. On this happened really quickly. We talked to Kim Masters veteran show business journalist at the Hollywood reporter who said that a decade ago Netflix's was an afterthought for big media companies newcomers from Silicon Valley or anywhere else did not strike fear in the hearts of moguls. There's a thing that happens in Hollywood. Which is the outsiders come in, and they think boy. There's a lot of stupid rules in Hollywood and people sure do dumb stuff, but we're going to be much smarter than these idiots, and then they get kilt. It turns out that Netflix was the exception to the rule. It didn't get killed at one. And NETFLIX's did it with Hollywood's help. You can trace all this back to two thousand eight, which is when Netflix's really broken into streaming by getting his hands on a bunch of blockbuster movies for a bargain, Ben, price, it had made a deal with stars premium cable channel. Let netflix's stream always rate movies from Sony and Disney so stars had created the service called Vong which nobody listening to this podcast is GonNa Remember, but there was a service before Netflix's. That was streaming. Streaming movies called. Longo Van Gogh was losing seventy million dollars a year. Rich Greenfield is an analyst with light shed partners. He's been following digital media closely for years, and in walks, Reed Hastings in Ted Sandoz and says hey will take that streaming content. You could sub-licensed to us and we'll pay you. Tens of millions of dollars Netflix's use it as the base to build their streaming service, versus what was historically just a DVD service. And the rest is they say is history.