POINT BREAK - Trailer ( 1. Trailer for Kathryne Bigelow's film. Exclusive: Martin Scorsese discusses his faith, his struggles, his films and . The film, to be released this month, stars Liam Neeson as Father Crist. They, too, find themselves submitted to torture and struggle with whether to apostatize. Early in this interview, Mr. Scorsese spoke about his childhood as a Catholic schoolboy educated by the Sisters of Charity on the Lower East Side of New York, his brief stint at a minor seminary, his love for the church, which he said took him out of the “everyday world,” as well as his early fascination with Maryknoll Missionaries. Scorsese’s office in New York on Nov. Date Episode TNmS AGB Nationwide Seoul Nationwide Seoul 2016-07-20 : 1 : 9.9% (10th) 11.3% (7th) 8.6% (17th) 10.4% (10th) 2016-07-21 : 2 : 10.1% (9th). 14, 2016, the Library of Congress announced the latest additions to the National Film Registry, its compendium of motion pictures that have been judged to be. How do movies like “Marauders” get made? One assumes that every film has a creative impetus at some point in its production, but it’s incredibly hard to find. Early voting results could help determine the 2016 presidential election as polls tighten across battleground states. Here's who's winning. While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126. Comments Pete Wilson and Cross Point Church: Until There is Truth, Lessons Will Not Be Learned — 1,364 Comments Comment navigation. Tagline, plot summaries, cast list, trivia, quotes, user reviews, and a message board. This map shows the winner of the popular vote in each state for the 2016 presidential election. It will be useful, down the road (or now if you are already thinking. James Martin, S. J., who served as an adviser to the film. This part of the conversation, edited for length and clarity, focuses on the creation of “Silence” and Mr. Scorsese’s own spiritual journey in making the film. James Martin, S. J.: When did you run across Silence, the book? Martin Scorsese: I wound up at Cardinal Hayes . Somehow at that time also, around 1. The whole industry changed. You could make independent films on the East Coast. It wasn’t that way before. So I wound up at Washington Square College, and the passion found its way into the films. I wanted to make that. By 1. 98. 8, when that was finally made, and it was about to be released, there was a great deal of an uproar, and we had to show the film, the film at that moment, to different religious groups to show what it was, rather than arguing about it without having seen it. One of the people was Archbishop Paul Moore of New York, Episcopal, and he came to a little meeting afterwards at a small dinner we had. He felt that the film was, as he said, “Christologically correct.”He said, “I’m going to send you a book,” and described some of the stories in . I received the book a few days later, and in 1. I read it. By the time I did “Goodfellas,” I had promised the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to be in a film of his called “Dreams.” He wanted me to play van Gogh. So I was 1. 5 days over schedule on “Goodfellas.” The studio was furious. We were just scurrying to finish, and Kurosawa was waiting for me in Japan. He was 8. 2 years old, and he had just finished the majority of the shooting, and he had only my scene to shoot and he was waiting. Two days after shooting that film we flew to Tokyo and then to Hokkaido, and while I was there I read the book. Actually, I finished it on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. So you read Silence in Japan. That’s when I thought, “This would be an amazing picture to make at some point.” At first I didn’t think so. At first I didn’t really immediately know, while I was reading the book, how to realize it, make it real, stage it, because I didn’t know the heart of it. In other words, I wasn’t able to really interpret it. And I think it took all these years. Because I tried writing a script right away, around 1. Jay Cox and myself, in 1. Donald Trump’s victory in November was not only the most important election result of our lifetimes, but ranks as one of the most significant events in recorded.I just didn’t know. Then I got sidetracked doing other films: “Age of Innocence.” I owed a film to Universal. I had to do “Casino,” wound up doing “Kundun,” which also was a way of working some of this out. In the meantime, I was always going back to the book. What’s important to understand is that from 1. Gordian knot of intricacies, a complicated mess, a legal mess, and so it became more forbidding to do the picture. Some of the people involved wound up in jail. It was not for reasons of dealing with “Silence,” but other business practices. Finally, there were a number of people who worked it out, but it took many years to try to understand, or feel comfortable with, how to visualize the picture, and how to deal with the last sequences of the film. Not just the confrontation at the end, but the epilogue. You said it took you a while to understand the “heart” of the book. How would you describe the heart of the book? Well, it's the depth of faith. It’s the struggle for the very essence of faith. Stripping away everything else around it. The vehicle that one takes towards faith can be very helpful. So, the church—the institution of the church, the sacraments—this all can be very helpful. But ultimately it has to be yourself, and you have to find it. You have to find that faith, or you have to find a relationship with Jesus with yourself really, because ultimately that’s the one you face. Right. Father Rodrigues is very free by the end. Yes. But it doesn’t negate in my mind those who choose to live a life according to the rules of an institution, of the institution of the Catholic Church, or however one proceeds in their life with their own beliefs. But ultimately they can’t do it for you. You’ve got to do it yourself. Every day. It keeps calling you, and it’s in the other people around you. It’s in the people closest to you. This is what it is, and you suddenly get slapped in the face by it, and you say, “Wake up!”But the shock is, without describing the ending of the movie, that the character finds that what he is about to do, or what he does, is antithetical to what probably all of Christian culture in Europe thinks should be done. That’s right. That’s what was so compelling about telling this story. Because how could you support that? Or how could you champion his choice, his decision? Then you say: “You put yourself in that place. Think about the weakness of the human spirit. The weakness of humanity.” And I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it over the years myself too. I’ve experienced it with people making the same mistakes over and over again, and there are only certain people around them going to help them or be with them. The problem is like in “Mean Streets,” the character Charlie chooses his own penance. When you least expect it. Right. And it becomes an annoyance, and you really say: “No. I said to my spiritual director once, “This is not the cross that I would choose,” and he said, “Well, if it’s the cross you choose, then it's hardly a cross.”That’s right, because it’s comfortable to you! And that’s what fascinated me about the decision he makes. It’s such a sweeping decision too. It’s very clear what he does. Yet he has it solely in him. It’s there in his heart. And it’s there in the book, I know. You have this book that means so much to you spiritually, you’re able to work on it and now you see the result. What is that process like for you spiritually? Ultimately, it becomes like a pilgrimage. We’re still on the road and it’s never going to end. I thought it would for a little while, but once I was there, I realized no. Even in the editing room, it’s unfinished. It will always be unfinished. It’s easy to make a pilgrimage the way I want to make a pilgrimage . It’s not easy to make the film, and there were a lot of sacrifices. They can't even be fixed in a way, some of the things that happened personally, so there were a lot of sacrifices to make the picture. Whether it’s a good picture or not is up to other people, but for me the spirituality helped to a certain extent, and it’s something that I would want my children to feel comfortable with in the future. Christian spirituality in general? Yes. What you mean by saying the movie is still unfinished? Well, there are parts of the book I wish I could have shot that we chose not to, that I would have like to have realized, but it’s a different form. Literature is very different from the visual image and the moving image. So could I have done it page by page almost? It’s almost trying to reach a point in which you pull things away rather than putting things in, and hopefully the things that are in resonate. I’d like to make a film just on one of those vibrations, so to speak. So for me I don't want to finish it. It’s been way over schedule too. I can say that now, but it’s time to finish it. It’s time to finish it, and it’s just time to let it go out there and people see it. That’ll be good, and take what comes. But it’s almost a very private thing. Of course. Now, when you read the book there were some scenes that I’m sure that are very moving to you and that really affected you on a very deep level. When you see your film what kind of reaction do you have to those scenes? There are a few scenes in the film that affect me. The one of the martyrs in the ocean. That’s a beautiful scene. While we were there you could feel it. When we were shooting it, I’m telling you, you could feel it. What could you feel? You felt the beauty and the spirituality of what was trying to be enacted. You could feel it through the actors. Through Shinya Tsukamoto and Yoshi Oida, Andrew and Adam, it was gut- wrenching and sad and beautiful. Those caves were beautiful. When we went on location just to check those caves, when we were in there, there was a woman in there meditating. So we spent a lot of time there, and it was comforting, in an odd way. And when I see it on film, yes, I get some of that. What do you think someone without faith would take from this film? Look, we know that there will be a lot of people that are going be scathing, I would think—those without faith. The problem is the certitude, particularly in the modern world; because with technology, we always think.. I imagine that no matter what point in time, particularly from the Industrial Revolution on, you must have thought that this was the best we can ever do. In other words, this is the best of all possible worlds and we're so advanced. And maybe we're not. But with the technology and the possibility of explaining spirituality through chemistry of the brain, all of this, I think some people would be extremely hostile to it, or at least point out maybe the negative aspects of the “mission,” so to speak. And there have been so many films, so many books on that, going back to “Aguirre, the Wrath of God.” In any event, this goes beyond that, I think. This goes to the very essence of the gift that they brought. My sense is that for someone without faith, they are brought along on Father Rodrigues’s journey; and he’s a good person, and the Japanese Christians are good people.
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