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Martin Scorsese's Oscar Curse

ScorseseWould you like to see three new Martin Scorsese movies this year? I know I would!

Back in the glory days of Hollywood, even the top directors cranked out at least a movie a year. In the late 30s, when he was arguably doing his best work, John Ford made an average of three per year.

But of course Hollywood is no longer a smoothly operating assembly line -- too many players want in on the deal. This recent article in the Los Angeles Times details what’s delaying a proposed new collaboration between Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. It left me amazed that movies manage to get made at all.

The irony is that Scorsese, who always seems to have a pile of projects he's interested in,  is having trouble because he finally won an Oscar this year for The Departed. Don’t get me wrong, I liked The Departed, but I wouldn’t call it his best film. Which of these do you think should have been the first film to win Scorsese an Academy Award instead of  The Departed?

 

Posted by M. Faust
October 5, 2007 1:45pm


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