"The project does feel somewhat necessary. The Scorsese of 2025 has a cast-iron reputation. He is perhaps the greatest film-maker in the history of the medium. He is lauded and respectable, a pillar of the monied establishment. What Mr Scorsese does well is remind you this was not always the case. Pointedly, in interviews conducted by Miller, Scorsese is keen to remind the world that he spent most of his life as the ultimate outsider."
"A sickly kid who was born in Queens, New York near the street where the mob would dump their dead bodies, he was riddled with asthma and had to watch the world through his third-storey window, only escaping to air-conditioned cinemas that would alleviate his symptoms. Throughout his life he was, as he puts it, ostracised time and time again. Ostracised from his neighbourhood after a family dispute."
"Ostracised by his religion for making The Last Temptation of Christ. Ostracised by Hollywood after the twin flops of Kundun and Bringing Out the Dead. Ostracised by his own body after he was hospitalised, blood pouring from every orifice, when his gargantuan drug intake caught up with him in his 30s. And yet, every time he was knocked down, his talent and determination helped him fin"
Rebecca Miller's sprawling Apple TV documentary Mr Scorsese attempts to present a more complete, current portrait of Martin Scorsese, though five hours cannot encompass his multitudes. Scorsese's 2025 reputation is cast-iron: widely lauded, respectable, and establishment-standing despite earlier outsider status. He grew up sickly in Queens with asthma, watching life through a third-storey window and finding refuge in air-conditioned cinemas. He experienced repeated ostracism—from his neighbourhood after a family dispute, from peers over Boxcar Bertha, from religion over The Last Temptation of Christ, and from Hollywood after Kundun and Bringing Out the Dead—and suffered severe drug-related hospitalisation in his 30s.
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