Martin Scorsese: 'Cinema is gone'

AP ^ | Dec 20, 6:17 PM EST | JAKE COYLE

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Martin Scorsese's Manhattan office, in a midtown building a few blocks northwest of the cordoned-off Trump Tower, may be the most concentrated bastion of reverence for cinema on the face of the earth.

There's a small screening room where Scorsese screens early cuts of his films and classic movies for his daughter and his friends. There's his personal library of thousands of films, some he taped himself decades ago. Film posters line the walls. Bookshelves are stuffed with film histories. And there are editing suites, including the one where Scorsese and his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker regularly toil with a monitor dedicated to the continuous, muted playing of Turner Classic Movies.

Few today are making movies with the scope and ambition of "Silence" - a fact, he grants, that makes him feel like one of the last of a dying breed in today's film industry.

"Cinema is gone," Scorsese says. "The cinema I grew up with and that I'm making, it's gone."

[minnesota_bound]

I was blown away by “The Shootist”. John Wayne’s last.

So was he at the end of the movie...
I think Opie shot him in the back : )

[eddie willers]

We will never see another James Bond film like “From Russia With Love” because the ending was “not explosive enough”.

I don't know....Rosa got a kick out of it.