MR. SCORSESE

Director: Rebecca Miller
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Cate Blanchett, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma

The new AppleTV+ docuseries Mr. Scorsese is an intimate portrait of one of our greatest filmmakers. It feels like your own personal masterclass. Director Rebecca Miller is smart choice to present this wide-ranging interview about Martin Scorsese’s life and career. She’s an accomplished director herself so she knows the right kind of questions to dig into his past and examine how his life informed the choices he’s made in his work. She’s also the daughter of acclaimed playwright, Arthur Miller, and her husband is Daniel Day-Lewis, who has worked with Scorsese twice in The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York. He’s profiled in this series along with many of the great actors Scorsese has worked with like Jodie Foster, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone and more.

Like most biographical documentaries, this series takes your traditional chronological approach. He recounts growing up in New York with a Catholic Italian family. He suffered from bad asthma as a child and retreated to the movie theater in the summer where it was air conditioned and he could breathe comfortably. There began his love affair with cinema, as he saw his life and family experiences reflected on screen. He was very attuned to what was going on in his neighborhood from the mobsters to the devout Catholics. His memory recall and attention to detail from decades prior is astonishing. He would make home movies with his friends, and his passion for storytelling through film never stopped. Now streaming on AppleTV

Here’s my review