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Martin Scorsese revealed he is still mulling how to tackle the life of Jesus on the big screen, at a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival where he will receive its honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday evening.
“I’m contemplating it right now. What kind of film I’m not quite sure, but I want to make something unique and different that could be thought-provoking and I hope also entertaining. I’m not quite sure yet how to go about it,” he said.
Scorsese first revealed that he wanted to make a film about the life of Jesus while attending Pope Francis’s Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference at the Vatican last May.
A recent L.A. Times article suggested that he had completed a screenplay adapted from the book A Life Of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who was also the author of historical missionary tale Silence which Scorsese brought to the big screen in 2016.
But his comments in Berlin suggest the project is still at a very early stage of development.
He told the press conference that he hoped to resume work on the project once the promotions and awards tour for Killers Of The Flower Moon was completed.
“Maybe I’ll get some sleep and then wake up and I’ll have this fresh idea of how to do it,” he said.
“The possibilities of making a film, the concept of Jesus, the idea of Jesus really stems from my background growing up in the Lower East Side, my interest in Catholicism, in the priesthood, which really led I think, ultimately to the film Silence,” he said.
He revealed that the film, about Jesuit missionaries in Japan, had in turn connected him with the Pope, who belongs to the Jesuit order.
“That was viewed by the Vatican and so I met the Pope a couple of times based on that and at one point in a meeting he
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recent abdominal surgery. Kensington Palace said in a statement on Tuesday that the Princess of Wales, 42, is “doing well” and is recovering at her home in Adelaide Cottage in Windsor.The update comes as Prince William was set to attend a ceremony that honored his late godfather, King Constantine of Greece.The Duke of Cambridge, 41, had to bow out last-minute due to “personal reasons.” No further details as to why he missed the event were given.Despite William skipping the event, other members of the royal family gathered to commemorate the Greek monarch at Windsor Castle, including Queen Camilla, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson, Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Anne, and Zara Tindall and her husband, Mike Tindall.Earlier this month, the Prince of Wales attended the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards at Royal Albert Hall on Feb.
Martin Scorsese accepted the PGA’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award tonight and took the Hollywood & Highland Ovation Ballroom down memory lane — about 60 years ago, when he accepted a PGA award for his student film, It’s Not Just You, Murray!, at the ripe age of 22 years old.
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Martin Scorsese was making “Silence,” his 2016 drama about a pair of Jesuit priests spreading the gospel in Japan, a typhoon hit the area, bringing with it biblical showers. As the filmmaker braced himself for news that the bad weather would mean he’d have to abandon plans to shoot that day, there was a rap on his trailer door. There stood Rodrigo Prieto, Scorsese’s long-time cinematographer, outfitted in heavy rain gear.
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere today at the Berlin Film Festival, Cohen Media Group has secured all North American distribution rights to Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger.
Ellise Shafer Martin Scorsese was lauded with the Berlin Film Festival‘s honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday night, celebrating a lifetime of achievement in cinema. As he accepted the award, Scorsese — whose most recent film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is currently up for 10 Oscars — reflected on his career thus far and even teased a return to the festival “in a couple years.” Scorsese was introduced by German director Wim Wenders, who is also Oscar-nominated for his latest feature, “Perfect Days.” Wenders told a hilarious story, complete with a photo slideshow, about one of his earliest interactions with Scorsese at the Telluride Film Festival in 1978, where he came upon the director and his then-girlfriend Isabella Rossellini on the side of the road with a flat tire.
Martin Scorsese was presented with the Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement on Tuesday evening, with old friend German director Wim Wenders paying a warm personal tribute to the director.
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Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories on Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger, the Martin Scorsese-narrated doc set to debut this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
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EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is returning to the Berlin Film Festival tomorrow for the first time in a decade. The cinema legend, currently on the awards circuit with latest epic Killers Of The Flower Moon, will be feted with the Berlinale‘s highest honor, its lifetime achievement Golden Bear.