New Releases by Martin Scorsese

A new and original work from the legendary Martin Scorsese, in which he and Father Antonio Spadaro discuss the visionary director''s relationship to faith throughout his life. When Jesuit father Antonio Spadaro and Martin Scorsese first sat down together in Scorsese''s home, neither could have predicted the depth of the conversation, intellectual exchange, or friendship that would result. While discussing the acclaimed director''s film Silence, about the persecution of Jesuits in Japan, they began a dialogue about cinema, life and faith that continues to this day. From his Italian-American upbringing as a Catholic in New York to the meditations on religion, belief, and the divine found in his filmography, Scorsese''s relationship to his faith has touched every aspect of his life and work. In their often-profound conversations, he and Father Spadaro have left no stone unturned, discussing this relationship along with everything from Scorsese''s childhood to the concept of the soul. And as a result of their long friendship and communication, Scorsese met with Pope Francis. Readers will gain new insight into one of the most famous directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in these honest, moving, and ultimately inspiring CONVERSATIONS ON FAITH.

''Have I succeeded, in my own life? I don''t know. I don''t think so. I''m in my eighties now and I just don''t know. But then, maybe "success" is the wrong way of framing it. You just try, and when you fail, you keep trying.'' Over the course of eight years, Martin Scorsese and Jesuit theologian Antonio Spadaro discussed filmmaking and faith. From his Catholic upbringing amidst the brutality of 1950s New York to the heights of Hollywood, Scorsese sketches a unique self-portrait. And from Mean Streets to Killers of the Flower Moon - and especially the spiritual reckonings of The Last Temptation of Christ and Silence - he grants readers a new understanding of his films. Reflecting on grace and violence, fear and hope, passion and belief, these rich and intimate conversations offer a remarkable insight into the director''s life and work.

Una mirada única al universo espiritual y creativo de uno de los grandes maestros del cine contemporáneo. El 3 de marzo de 2016, el padre Antonio Spadaro se reunió en Nueva York con Martin Scorsese para hablar de Silencio, la película que Scorsese dedicó a las persecuciones que sufrieron los jesuitas en Japón, y de la íntima relación del director con la fe. Esa primera conversación, rica en estímulos e inspiradora para ambos, dio inicio a un diálogo que continúa hasta hoy y que, a través de varios encuentros, aborda temas fundamentales para Scorsese, como su infancia en Nueva York o sus reflexiones sobre la fe y la gracia, que, de una u otra manera, han estado siempre presentes en sus películas. Spadaro y Scorsese recorren en estas páginas la carrera del premiado director, sus miedos e inspiraciones, brindando al lector un retrato nuevo e inédito de uno de los principales exponentes contemporáneos del séptimo arte, así como el encuentro que mantuvo con el papa Francisco, que dio pie a la escritura de un primer guion para llevar a la pantalla la vida de Jesús.

No dia 3 de março de 2016, em Nova lorque, o Padre Antonio Spadaro encontrou-se com Martin Scorsese em sua casa para discutir Silêncio, filme que o realizador italo-americano dedicou à perseguição aos jesuítas no Japão, e a sua relação com a fé. Aquela conversa inicial, rica em estímulos e sugestões para ambos, gerou um diálogo que se mantém até hoje. Através de vários encontros, abordam temas caros a Scorsese: desde a sua infância numa Nova lorque muito diferente daquela que conhecemos agora, até ao seu recente e belíssimo filme Assassinos da Lua das Flores, aprofundando reflexões sobre a fé e a graça que, mais ou menos subtilmente, emergem das suas obras. Entre os frutos do seu diálogo está também o encontro histórico entre o Papa Francisco e Scorsese, e a escrita, por este último, de um guião inicial para um filme dedicado à vida de Jesus, em resposta a um apelo do Papa aos artistas. Nestas páginas, Spadaro e Scorsese revisitam a carreira do realizador vencedor de um Óscar, os seus pensamentos sobre a fé, os seus medos e inspirações, oferecendo um novo e inédito retrato de uma das principais figuras contemporâneas da sétima arte.

Il 3 marzo 2016, a New York, padre Antonio Spadaro incontra a casa sua Martin Scorsese per parlare di Silence, il film che il regista italoamericano ha dedicato alle persecuzioni dei gesuiti in Giappone, e del suo rapporto con la fede. Quella prima chiacchierata, foriera di stimoli e suggestioni per entrambi, dà il via a un dialogo che prosegue ancora oggi. Un discorso che, attraverso vari incontri, affronta i temi cari a Scorsese: dall’infanzia in una New York molto diversa da quella che conosciamo ora fino ad arrivare al recente e bellissimo Killers of the Flower Moon, passando per profonde riflessioni sulla fede e la grazia che, in modo più o meno velato, traspaiono dalle sue opere. Tra i frutti del dialogo, anche lo storico incontro tra papa Francesco e Scorsese e la scrittura, da parte di quest’ultimo, di una prima sceneggiatura per un film dedicato alla vita di Gesù, per rispondere a un appello del Santo Padre agli artisti. In queste pagine, Spadaro e Scorsese ripercorrono la carriera del regista premio Oscar, i suoi pensieri sulla fede, le paure e le ispirazioni, donando al lettore un ritratto nuovo e inedito di uno dei principali esponenti contemporanei della settima arte.

"Роджер Эберт - культовый американский кинокритик, первый обладатель Пулитцеровской премии в области художественной критики."Мартин Скорсезе: ретроспектива" - книга, которая должна быть в библиотеке каждого любителя кинематографа. Дело не только в ее герое - легендарном режиссере Мартине Скорсезе, лидере "Нового Голливуда" в 70-е и патриархе мирового кино сейчас, но и в не менее легендарном авторе. Эберт и Скорсезе оба родились в Нью-Йорке, ходили в католическую школу и были очарованы кино. Возможно, именно эти факторы сыграли важную роль в интуитивном понимании Эбертом ключевых мотивов и идей творчества знаменитого режиссера. В книгу вошли рецензии Роджера Эберта на фильмы Мартина Скорсезе, а также интервью и беседы критика и режиссера, в которых они рефлексируют над дилеммой работы в американском кинематографе и жизни с католическим воспитанием - главными темами в судьбах двух выдающихся представителей кино. Первое издание книги Роджера Эберта на русском языке." --

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book focuses first on the process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically into visual forms and patterns. It also tries to define the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut''s creative work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Isabelle Adjani, Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films.

"An invaluable analysis of the director''s art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander ''Sandy'' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. But after retiring from film-making in 1969, he then spent nearly 25 years teaching his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Mackendrick produced hundreds of pages of masterly handouts and sketches, designed to guide his students to a finer understanding of how to write a story, and then use those devices peculiar to cinema in order to tell that story as effectively as possible. Gathered and edited in this collection, Mackendrick''s teachings reveal that he had the talent not only to make great films, but also to articulate the process with a clarity and insight that will still inspire any aspirant film-maker"--Abstract

Shusaku Endo''s classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endois one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese''s life and work. He reveals which films are most autobiographical, and what he was trying to explore and accomplish in other films.

Attraverso materiale d''archivio unito a interviste ad amici, familiari e colleghi il documentario racconta la storia di George Harrison, la sua vita e come la spiritualità è diventata una parte importante di essa.

Comment L''invention de Hugo Cabret, le roman en "mots et en images" de Brian Selznick, est devenu le film événement en 3D de Martin Scorsese ! Richement illustré de photos du tournage ou tirées d''anciens films, de dessins de Brian Selznick, ce livre document nous offre : d''étonnants portraits, sous forme d''interviews, de tous ceux qui ont participé à la réalisation du film Hugo Cabret : du producteur en passant par les acteurs jusqu''à la scripte ! des pages sur l''histoire des automates, sur Georges Méliès et sur la naissance même du cinéma. Et un chapitre consacré à la scène finale, époustouflante ! Pour tous ceux qui ont aimé le livre et le film, un ouvrage plein d''anecdotes surprenantes qui nous entraîne dans l''univers magique du cinéma !

Depuis son arrivée sur la scène internationale avec Mean Streets puis Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese n''a cessé de surprendre et d''enthousiasmer son public, construisant au fil du temps une o euvre majeure de l''histoire du cinéma. Sur le modèle du Hitchcock par Truffaut et des Conversations avec Billy Wilder de Cameron Crowe, il nous offre aujourd''hui le livre qu''on attendait depuis longtemps. Dans ces entretiens au long cours avec Richard Shickel, l''un des plus célèbres critiques américains, illustrés de nombreuses photos inédites, le metteur en scène, connu pour son insatiable curiosité et sa connaissance encyclopédique et vivante du monde du cinéma, revient sur son parcours, depuis son enfance à Little Italy jusqu''à Shutter Island. Outre la genèse et le tournage de ses films, sur lesquels il nous confie bon nombre d''anecdotes inédites, Martin Scorsese nous laisse entrer dans son intimité, évoquant au fil des discussions ses passions multiples, l''évolution de la société américaine, dont il est l''un des portraitistes les plus lucides, ou encore son rapport à la spiritualité. Ce sont, pour finir, de véritables mémoires en forme de conversations que nous offre ce créateur protéiforme, doublés d''une vision originale du cinéma, de la culture et du monde d''aujourd''hui.

Discusses Elia Kazan and the films released in the Elia Kazan Collection.

Italianamerican è un ritratto di famiglia in un interno di Elizabeth Street, Little Italy, nell''anno 1974. Martin Scorsese ha trentadue anni, ha appena girato Mean Streets. Durante un weekend estivo si installa nella casa dei genitori Charles e Catherine, la casa dove lui stesso è cresciuto; li fa sedere sul divano del salotto; li fa parlare davanti alla cinepresa, Charles un pò impacciato, Catherine subito mattatrice. Il risultato è un documentario unico, un celebrato home-movie d''autore che trova qui la sua prima edizione italiana.

From the cinema verit� of the sixties to softer fare like Splash, New York has provided some of the most iconic moments on film. Beginning with a survey of such classics as Breakfast at Tiffany''s, Scenes from the City captures how the changing face of New York, as well as the founding of the MOFTB, have contributed to a particular school of film characterized most emphatically in the street-style work of directors as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. With over 200 stills and contributions from noted New York film personalities such as Sidney Lumet and Nora Ephron, the book also includes rare, unpublished, behind-the-scenes shots and stories from the quintessential New York filmmaker himself--Woody Allen. With a special section on the landmark TV series, commercials and music videos filmed in New York, Scenes from the City is an affectionate and vivacious ovation for this captivating "character" that rarely receives billing but always steals the show.

Les entretiens de Michael Henry Wilson avec Martin Scorsese, commencés dès ses premiers films en 1974, sont devenus un rituel auquel rien ne déroge. Au fil du temps, la conversation devient dialogue de plus en plus approfondi ; la confiance est palpable dans la densité des échanges d''idées tant sur les films que sur les projets ou le sens général d''une œuvre qui s''élabore. Les chapitres restituent la chronologie de ces rencontres et couvrent toute la filmographie de Scorsese, des premiers films avec Robert de Niro, jusqu''à son documentaire sur Bob Oylan et The Departed dont il vient de terminer le tournage. La qualité des propos et le caractère systématique des rendez-vous confèrent à l''ensemble une grande qualité littéraire et le mouvement d''un récit, celui de la création d''une œuvre par l''artiste lui-même. Pour le jeune Martin Scorsese, tout commença au troisième étage d''un immeuble d''Elizabeth Street, au cœur de Little Italy, le quartier des Italo-Américains. Mais de Little Italy à New York, de New York à l''Amérique, le cercle n''a cessé de s''agrandir, comme la gamme de s''étendre : de Mean Streets en Casino, de Raging Suit au Temps de l''innocence, du solipsisme de Taxi Driver à la compassion d''A tombeau ouvert, Scorsese passe du " je ", au " nous ", d''illuminations singulières aux multiples facettes du melting pot, de la chronique semi-autobiographique à de vastes tableaux qui déploient dans toute leur complexité notre comédie humaine. Si ses créatures sont possédées, et parfois anéanties, par leur passion, Scorsese a su canaliser la sienne dans une œuvre qui continue de s''élargir, jusqu''à embrasser toute la mémoire du monde. Il ne s''est sans doute pas libéré de ses obsessions, mais il a appris à les tenir à distance en les transférant sur des personnages de fiction. Comme le dit si bien le peintre d''Apprentissages (Nick Nolte) : - On crée parce qu''on ne peut pas faire autrement. - La folie scorsesienne est à la fois élection et malédiction. Elle est le prix que doit payer celui qui s''adonne sans frein à son art. L''œuvre ne s''accomplit pas en dépit de cette folie, mais à cause d''elle. Chaque film est un rite de conjuration. Pour illustrer ces propos, Scorsese a ouvert ses archives personnelles avec la plus grande générosité : notes, dessins, manuscrits, story-boards, photos de famille ou de plateau, tout document pouvant éclairer ses trente ans de conversations avec Wilson. Une biofilmographie complète cette riche iconographie.