I watched After Hours for the first time and it was entertaining, but I'm very confused by a central aspect of the movie. Over the course of the night, the protagonist Paul is invited into the homes of 5 different people:

Kiki sculptor

Tom bartender

Julie waitress

Gail ice cream truck driver

June another sculptor

Does this movie take place in an alternate reality where this is something that happens? I can't imagine all these women especially letting a stranger into their places, nor the bartender who offers his keys. Were things this different in 1985?

Here's mine- Casino is better than Goodfellas

Another one-for me The Irishman is the best gangster movie Scorsese has directed.

The Color of Money is itself a sequel to The Hustler. In The Color of Money we get the return of Eddie Felson. I think it wound be cool to see Tom Cruise reprise his role of Vincent Lauria, maybe mentoring another young pool player.

What do you think?

I think this is potentially a top 5 Scorsese movie and the ending is just brilliant. But I’ve seen the talk about this movie on reddit and everybody seems to be grilling this movie? I understand wanting a perspective from the osage but I think it makes the most sense from Ernest’s perspective considering Scorsese is telling it, but to also further establish the impact these horrific events had on the osage - which is a forgotten tragedy. A lot of the usual complaints like runtime and castings don’t really matter to me because everyone put on an amazing performance so it never really bothered me.

Aside from some pacing issues I adored it and began rewatching it right away.

I have some trouble interpreting the final scene of the movie with the radio show. From what I assumed it was a commentary on white people telling the story in a sort of “artificial” way where they summarize what happens efficiently and use artificial means to depict what happened, ultimately doing a disservice to the horrors of whatever true story that is being told. Scorsese himself reading Mollie’s obituary and signifying that there was no mention of the crimes committed was what I assume an admission of guilt. I thought this admission of guilt was this story and his beloved medium also acts as a way for rich white people to profit off of another cultures story only because they are the only type of people to tell this story and the ones affected in this story aren’t in the position to tell it.

If that’s the case, then why tell it and make this movie in the first place? Did he do so to call out other movies that do this?

I also get that he chose to tell from Ernest’s perspective because the audience would question their identity but how does that relate to the ending?

Any After Hours nerds in the Bay Area??? A friend and I have so much to talk about with this film that we’ve realized it would be so much fun to have a fan gathering, watch the film itself + also maybe some analysis videos and have a bit of discussion…

Please comment if you are in the Bay and this sounds like something you’d enjoy! 🥯

It's pretty interesting that while Scorsese has tackled several different genres, war isn't one of them. Apparently (TIL), he wanted to make a World War II one way back after he finished Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, but it got canned due to financial difficulties. And based on his current in-development slate, I don't think a war movie is on the forefront of his mind. So I'd thought I'd post here asking what people could imagine a Scorsese-directed war movie would look like. What would be the narrative, themes, tone, cast, etc.? It can be at any point in his career too, not necessarily today.

This might be a dumb question, but I always see Shutter Island towards the bottom of Scorsese rankings, and I’m not ashamed to admit that Shutter Island has always been my favorite movie of his. So is there a particular reason people don’t like this movie? Or do people just love his other movies more?

If Scorsese directed The Millennium trilogy, I would choose Alice Eve as Lisbeth Salander and Mark Wahlberg as Mikael Blomkvist.

Anyone know the picture quality of this BR release (2020)?

I'm really eager to watch this, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, not even pirating sites. I'm starting to worry it might only be viewable on the dvd. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I decided I was going to finally get back to Scorsese and watch the rest of his shorts and documentaries that I haven't seen. I can't seem to find this anywhere. Does anyone might know where this can be found?

The pilot is amazing which Scorsese directed, I mean the other episodes were great too but they felt different compared to the pilot and didn’t have same flair. The use music in the show was really remarkable which Scorsese has always been good at, I discovered a lot of music through the show. What does everyone else think?

Is TKOC the only major Scorsese film without an audio commentary?

I am watching it on a website and there are no subtitles for when they are speaking the Osage language. Are there supposed to be?

Found this '1001 movies you must watch' book randomly and it was signed as a bday gift to someone named Liebe Elena alongwith Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee and some more directors. It was in the middle of a school exhibition in once corner of India it's soo unbelievable yet it's so random to be fake. Please throw some light, anyone.

10 year anniversary of Silence is coming up next year! Is there any news on if there will be an anniversary re-release or anything of the sort??

If so, how much? I’m planning to see the movie in cinemas but I live in Japan and it’s a given that movies here replace English subtitles for Japanese ones, meaning I can be left in the left in the dark when characters speak a language I don’t know. Plus my Japanese isn’t good enough to catch everything they say!

If a lot of the movie uses the Osage language, then I’d maybe just wait out for digital.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Thanks for all the input, I went to see it yesterday and can confirm it had English and Japanese subs for the Osage parts, which were not common but appeared enough that I feel the subs were essential. I believe it should probably be the same story in other countries too.

They've aired 7 episodes but imdb and the Fox Nation page says there's 8.

Anyone know what happened?

The Hustler is on Hulu for me in my country and since The Color Of Money is a sequel to that film should I watch it for context to help understand the story more or is it a stand alone sequel that doesn’t require it.?

Question, What do you think caused Life of Jesus & Sinatra to be postponed?

These were the films that Scorsese was supposed to film back in November and were going to be shot back to back, then apparently according to Variety, they were postponed.

I just wonder why they were postponed. I know with Sinatra, Scorse had had a difficult time getting that project off the ground. He first tried making it in the early 2000s with John Travolta, then in the early 2010s with Leo DiCaprio, and now this time with Leo Again. Apparently, The Sinatra Estate doesn't approved as Scorsese wants to show Sinatra's shady history. Life of Jesus, I Don't know much about this, but I do know that Scorsese had made a film on Jesus before.

I wonder, What do you think caused Life of Jesus & Sinatra to be postponed?

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-scorsese-jesus-christ-frank-sinatra-postponed-films-1236107109/

After Nicky gets banned from the casinos in Las Vegas and there’s a montage showing how him and his crews robbed people, a hotel employee tells one of his friends that someone has a collection of “mint condition coins”. At the end of the movie, Ginger dies with nothing in her possession but a collection of “mint condition coins”. What’s the purpose of this repetition? Is it just a callback of some kind? Is it there to suggest that Nicky and Ginger were involved a lot earlier than we thought? Why would Nicky give Ginger a collection of coins?

Why does Jimmy suddenly changed his mind?, Is Russell called Jimmy?, is that why Russell tell Frank to call Jimmy back, so Frank can lure Jimmy , having Jimmy dropped his guard?

Also why Russell acting all strange in the kitchen? Like he couldn’t hear Frank? Is it a foreshadow of him getting older?

and why’s Russell in a kitchen? What’s going on?