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Movies to Watch in March 2017: On Demand With ScreenCrush
Movies to Watch in March 2017: On Demand With ScreenCrush
Movies to Watch in March 2017: On Demand With ScreenCrush
Think there’s nothing good to watch on television? Think again — and check out our new series, On Demand With ScreenCrush. Every two weeks, ScreenCrush Editor-in-Chief Matt Singer joins you to recommend three handpicked films you can watch at home right now from Movies on Demand. These are big new releases you won’t find streaming on Netflix, and the choices run the gamut from indie favorites, to major blockbusters, to insightful documentaries, and everything in between — all available with your remote.
Did You Spot Martin Scorsese’s Brief Cameo in ‘Silence’?
Did You Spot Martin Scorsese’s Brief Cameo in ‘Silence’?
Did You Spot Martin Scorsese’s Brief Cameo in ‘Silence’?
Martin Scorsese has always slipped himself into his own films, whether in near-subliminal cameos, or with speaking roles both onscreen – Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The King of Comedy – and off – over the phone in The Wolf of Wall Street, and over the EMS radio in Bringing Out the Dead, among others. While many of us assumed the Scorsese cameos ceased with Silence, the director still found a way to put himself in the religious epic.
Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ Influenced by Classic Japanese Films
Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ Influenced by Classic Japanese Films
Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ Influenced by Classic Japanese Films
When you make a movie set in Japan, it’s a good idea to know what Japan looks like. And how better to do that, than to watch as much Japanese cinema as you can consume? It gets tricky when you’re making a movie set in an era that’s not the present — say, the 17th century — and you can’t just set up a crew in the streets of modern Tokyo. Martin Scorsese said that in order to get the look of his new film Silence, he had to go back in time to the classic Japanese cinema he grew up with.
‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Exhausting Religious Epic
‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Exhausting Religious Epic
‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Exhausting Religious Epic
Martin Scorsese has reportedly been trying to make an English-language adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence for upwards of 25 years. Watching the finished movie, it’s easy to see why he fought so hard to make it — and why it took so long to get someone to finance and distribute it. Silence encapsulates many of Scorsese’s most deeply felt themes; ideas about faith, sin, and guilt he’s considered in film after film for decades. But it does so in a package that is slow, dry, and a little monotonous. Fans (there will certainly be some, and not without reason) will hail Silence as a passionate and perceptive career summation. Silence’s critics will likely agree — while wishing that summation wasn’t such a slog.
‘Silence’ Is Brutal in New International Trailer
‘Silence’ Is Brutal in New International Trailer
‘Silence’ Is Brutal in New International Trailer
As Silence prepares to hit select theaters this weekend (the rest of you will have to wait until January), Paramount has unveiled a new international trailer for Martin Scorsese’s long-developing passion project — an epic drama based on Japanese author Shusaku Endo’s acclaimed novel. There are a couple of notable things about this trailer for Silence: For one, it’s a bit more intense than the domestic versions, and because it’s a Japanese trailer, the Japanese cast members are more prominently featured.
‘Silence’s Production Designer Was Also Its Costume Designer
‘Silence’s Production Designer Was Also Its Costume Designer
‘Silence’s Production Designer Was Also Its Costume Designer
There are a lot of things that come into play when you put together a film. You have to have a script, a director, actors, and then you have to find locations and build sets and get costumes and essentially build an entire world within which the actors operate. Production design and costume design go hand-in-hand: you don’t want actors in a film set in the 1800s to be wearing clothes from the 1600s, and you want your costumes to be in constant dialogue with your sets. If an environment is wet, or dry, or cold, or inside, or outside, the clothes reflect that. Because of this, the Oscar-winning production designer for Martin Scorsese’s epic Silence, Dante Ferretti, also acted as its costume designer.
‘Arrival,’ ‘Manchester,’ ‘Silence’ Scores Not Oscar Eligible
‘Arrival,’ ‘Manchester,’ ‘Silence’ Scores Not Oscar Eligible
‘Arrival,’ ‘Manchester,’ ‘Silence’ Scores Not Oscar Eligible
On Tuesday, the Academy released their list of all the film scores eligible for a Best Original Score Oscar this year, but three of 2016’s biggest movies were absent. Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence were all shut out of the competition because the first two used pre-existing music, and the last wasn’t deemed “substantial” enough.
AFI Spreads the Wealth with Their Best Films of 2016 Selections
AFI Spreads the Wealth with Their Best Films of 2016 Selections
AFI Spreads the Wealth with Their Best Films of 2016 Selections
As December rolls on, so too does the cavalcade of year-end lists. The latest authority to weigh in is AFI, by which I mean the American Film Institute and not the Californian alternative-rock group also known as A Fire Inside. While we may never know which films the quartet behind “Miss Murder” favored this year, the other AFI has released their list of 2016’s ten best releases, and it’s a little more varied than some of the heretofore published lists, bringing in some films with less awards buzz along with your usual suspects of Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, and La La Land.
‘Silence’ Trailer: It’s Real, It’s Here, and It’s Magnificent
‘Silence’ Trailer: It’s Real, It’s Here, and It’s Magnificent
‘Silence’ Trailer: It’s Real, It’s Here, and It’s Magnificent
Paramount hasn't been historically known for their baller moves, but when it comes to their bold anti-promotional campaign for Martin Scorsese's Silence, game must recognize game. Keeping a major awards horse almost entirely on the down-low until one month before its December 23 release is one thing; when that movie also happens to be a passion project decades in the making from what very well might be our greatest living filmmaker — American or otherwise — well, that's just showing off. A Martin Scorsese movie sells itself, and Paramount has now reminded the moviegoing public of why that is.

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