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Hugo Nabs Best Film of 2011 From The National Board of Review!

Posted by   on December 1, 2011

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Awards season is well underway and in the early going, there’s no one film that has become a front runner – with The National Board of Review’s selection of Hugo as Best Film joining The Artist [selected by the New York Film Critics Circle] and Beginners/Tree of Life [tied for the Gotham Awards]. Hugo’s Martin Scorsese also won for Best Director.

Beginners’ Christopher Plummer took Best Supporting Actor, but The Artist was shut out.

For the complete list of winners, follow the jump.

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Hugo – Terrific Story, Terrific 3D!

Posted by   on November 22, 2011 · 1 comment

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Martin Scorsese’s first family film is devastatingly good.

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Grade: A+

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HBO Presents: Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World!

Posted by   on October 4, 2011

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Martin Scorsese has turned his documentary eye onto George Harrison, ‘the Beatle who changed.’ George Harrison: Living in the Material World [HBO, Wednesday, October 5/Thursday, October 6th, 9/8C] looks at his life, music, his evolution – his willingness to take chances [he once funded a movie because he wanted to see it!], musically and philosophically.

Check out the trailer following the jump.

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Legendary Filmmaker To Pen Monthly Column For TCM!

Posted by   on September 26, 2011

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Martin Scorsese – legendary filmmaker, whose first 3D film, Hugo Cabret will be released for Christmas – will be writing a monthly column for Turner Classic Movies’ Now Playing viewing guide. His first column will look at the films of Nicholas Ray [Rebel With a Cause] and the work of cinematographer John Alton [Tea and Sympathy, Elmer Gantry].

For details, check out the press res;ease following the jump.

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The Beatle Who Changed: HBO Presents Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Posted by   on August 28, 2011

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Of all The Beatles, George Harrison was The Mysterious One. Quiet, seemingly shy – and yet, innovative. While the others were taking American blues, rock and pop in interesting new directions, it was George who came up Don’t Bother Me on the first Beatles album – a song that played with Moroccan rhythms in a new way and let the world know that he was not just The Quiet One who played the tastiest lead guitar of the sixties and seventies [sought out by no less than the supergroup, Cream, for a memorable solo on one of their biggest hits]: he was special in a way that differed from the others in the band.

Harrison, who went on to found a premiere movie studio, have a resoundingly successful career as a solo artist and make a profound impact on the world’s spiritual consciousness, led a life that makes most overachievers look like layabouts – and now that life is examined by one of the world’s great filmmakers.

On October 5th and 6th, HBO will present to Martin Scorsese’s two-part documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World – examining the life of one of the most influential men of the twentieth century. Check out the trailer following the jump.

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Coming Soon: The Elia Kazan Collection – Selected by Martin Scorsese!

Posted by   on September 9, 2010

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Martin Scorsese is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, and yet very few people are aware that as influential as he is, he was influenced to the same kind of degree by Elia Kazan [On the Waterfront, Splendor in the Grass]. Scorsese’s documentary, A Letter to Elia, will run alongside Kazan’s America, America on September 27th at the New York Film Festival, and will be broadcast on PBS on October 4th.

Fox Home Entertainment’s The Elia Kazan Collection – Selected by Martin Scorsese will be released on November 9th and will include A Letter to Elia along with fifteen of Kazan’s films [including the three mentioned above].

Details follow the jump.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese’s Big, Bad [And That’s Good] B-Movie Noir!

Posted by   on February 19, 2010 · 1 comment

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In many reviews, I have castigated directors and writers for that matter] of failing to make a successful thriller/horror/noir film because they went into it with one tone – usually grey. There are precious few breaks in the bleakness of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and yet I never felt bored by its unremittingly ominous tone. Maybe that’s because Scorsese is a master storyteller and has the ability to produce subtle tonal changes – even in a film that does not rely on subtlety in any normal sense.

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