On April 1, Martin Scorsese delivered this year’s prestigious Jefferson Lecture at the National Endowment for the Humanities in a presentation he called “Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema.” You can watch a recording here at the NEH site. The desire to make images move, the need to capture movement seems to be with us 30,000 years...
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Realizing a dream he’s talked about for well over 20 years, sounds as if financing is at last coming together for Martin Scorsese to bring The Silence to the screen. Set to begin filming in Taiwan in July 2014, the adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel will be Scorsese’s next project after wrapping The Wolf Of Wall Street. Thirty years ago the Japanese...
Ebert tweets the big news himself. “Whoa! My memoir has been optioned for a doc by Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer.” In 1994, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel placed Steve James documentary Hoop Dreams at #1 on both their Top 10 Lists. In 2009 Roger Ebert wrote: Today, fifteen years after I first saw it, I believe...