Martin Scorsese's film school  Feb 27 2012

Fast Company recently interviewed Martin Scorsese and jotted down all 85 movies he mentioned.

The Player: "In the years before this movie, the age of the director who had a free hand came to an end. And yet Altman kept experimenting with different kinds of actor, different approaches to narrative, different equipment, until finally he hit it with this movie, which took him off onto a whole other level."

Kids movie from Martin Scorsese?  Oct 25 2011

Apparently so. It's called Hugo:

I was going to make a joke about how this is Scorsese's first movie without Leonardo DiCaprio in like 20 years, but it's actually his first DiCaprio-free film in 12 years. (via stellar)

George Harrison: Living in the Material World  Oct 03 2011

Premiering on HBO this week, a Martin Scorsese documentary on George Harrison, everyone's favorite Beatle who wasn't John or Paul.

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese traces Harrison's live from his musical beginnings in Liverpool though his life as a musician, a seeker, a philanthropist and a filmmaker, weaving together interviews with Harrison and his closest friends, performances, home movies and photographs. Much of the material in the film has never been seen or heard before. The result is a rare glimpse into the mind and soul of one of the most talented artists of his generation and a profoundly intimate and affecting work of cinema.

Kubrick vs. Scorsese, a tribute  Jun 21 2010

Warning: this video contains spoilers, violence, and cinematic greatness.

Many friends after seeing my video "Tarantino vs Coen Brothers" requested me to do a new video duel of directors, so I decided to do now a tribute to my two favorite directors, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese, were 25 days re-watching 34 films, selected more than 500 scenes, and a hard work editing.

Tarantino vs. Coen Brothers is here; and here's Scorsese on Kubrick, in which I was delighted to learn that Scorsese thinks, as I do, that Eyes Wide Shut is underrated.

Widescreen vs pan and scan  Aug 28 2009

This video features a number of directors talking about the difference between viewing films in widescreen vs. pan and scan. Martin Scorsese:

[Converting to pan & scan] is, technically, re-directing the movie.

Update: Thoughts from David Lynch about pan and scan taken from a 1997 interview:

I would like to see everything done letterboxed and with great sound. I'm not too interested in doing the commentary, you know, like a lot of people do. But in some strange way I kind of like pan-and-scan. Because you see things. It is a compromise, and in a couple of things you really say, "Why am I doing it?" But it's just an interesting thing that happens- another composition. It's not so bad, but I wish really that people could see the thing in a theater and that laserdiscs and videos didn't exist. Because on the big screen with the sound, you become inside the film, and that's the beauty of cinema. And it never happens on video, and it doesn't happen on laserdisc, either.

(thx, bill)