....so intense and intimate is this rundown on the films that shaped
the greatest filmmaker this country has ever produced. Centered
around the idea of "The Director's Dilemma"--how to reconcile art
and commerce--Scorsese treats this century-long war as one
largely fought through subversion (by the auteur heroes whose B
movies he champions), then triumphing through the birth pangs of
the Personal Movie...represented here by Cassavetes, Kubrick,
and (though he modestly declines to say it) himself. PERSONAL
JOURNEY rivets not just because of its exquisitely chosen scenes
(nobody on this planet has better taste in or a more encyclopedic
knoeldge of movies), nor because of its idiosyncrasy (Scorsese
finds every imaginable scene of hideous violence in the section on
musicals), but because of its acute, delirious subjectivity. This is
the closest to spot-on Scorsese autobiography we will probably
ever get.
the greatest filmmaker this country has ever produced. Centered
around the idea of "The Director's Dilemma"--how to reconcile art
and commerce--Scorsese treats this century-long war as one
largely fought through subversion (by the auteur heroes whose B
movies he champions), then triumphing through the birth pangs of
the Personal Movie...represented here by Cassavetes, Kubrick,
and (though he modestly declines to say it) himself. PERSONAL
JOURNEY rivets not just because of its exquisitely chosen scenes
(nobody on this planet has better taste in or a more encyclopedic
knoeldge of movies), nor because of its idiosyncrasy (Scorsese
finds every imaginable scene of hideous violence in the section on
musicals), but because of its acute, delirious subjectivity. This is
the closest to spot-on Scorsese autobiography we will probably
ever get.