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Martin Scorsese

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On Movies & Media

Casting News So Extraordinary, I'm May Not Sleep Tonight

Shusaku Endo's Silence is the most harrowing novel I've ever read (yes, even harsher than The Road), and one of the most moving and profound. I've been reading about Martin Scorsese's plans to make a film version for several years now, trying

The Departed (2006)

[This is an expanded version of a review <a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/octoberweb-only/061012.html">originally published at <i>Christianity Today</i></a>.] You might be a cop. You might be an undercover agent. You might

On Movies & Media

Roger Ebert Remembers "The Last Temptation of Christ"

Congratulations to my friend Steven D. Greydanus. His review of The Passion of the Christ was persuasive for Roger Ebert when that film was released. Now, his review of The Last Temptation has proven useful to Ebert as well. There's a reason that Greydanus is my favorite writer

On Movies & Media

Scorsese's "Shutter Island" to star Williams, Ruffalo, and... yes... DiCaprio

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting on Hollywood. So all is right with the world. And today, the HR site reports on Martin Scorsese, who appears to have a crowded calendar for '08. Alas, while I've been eagerly awaiting updates on Scorsese's adaptation of Shusaku Endo&

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Superman footage!; heist flick for Cusack, Thornton.

Today's specials: * The trailer for the new Martin Scorsese film about Bob Dylan: No Direction Home. Okay, add THAT to my Christmas list as well. * It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a Christopher Reeve lookalike! * John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton

The Age of Innocence (2004)

The Age of Innocence (2004)

2015 Update: Here are some remarks about The Age of Innocence that were posted when I was a reviewer on a church website in the late '90s. That makes it one of the first reviews I published after college. The site was called Green Lake Reflections. I've

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

2015 Note: This review was originally published at a church website called Green Lake Reflections in 1999, and was quoted in the very first installment of Christianity Today's Film Forum, which was hosted at that time by Steve Lansingh. • It sounded promising. The greatest American director working in

Gangs of New York: a Looking Closer Film Forum

Gangs of New York: a Looking Closer Film Forum

This edition of Film Forum was originally published at Christianity Today on December 19, 2002. • Gangs of New York is director Martin Scorsese's much-anticipated film about an uprising of Irish immigrants against a gang called "Nativists" who seek to drive them out of Civil-War-era New York