Documentaries like this remind me why I love cinema. If you can get a free trial on Apple TV just to give this series a watch, it\u2019s definitely worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are key ingredients to making a documentary work. Any documentary on any subject, for that matter, especially subjects you don\u2019t care about. I\u2019ve got minimal interest in basketball, for example. That didn\u2019t change the fact that The Last Dance was a really effective documentary series. And talking of other subjects I either don\u2019t particularly care about or don\u2019t care about at all, you\u2019ve got Amy (Amy Winehouse), Senna (F1) and Maradona (football), all of this were made by Asif Kapour, who\u2019s basically my go-to guy for the making-subjects-I\u2019m not-interested-in-super-interesting kind of schtick. Yeah. (\u0e51>\u1d17<\u0e51)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Mr Scorsese and Kapour\u2019s documentaries have in common are genius slices of found footage that really enliven the narrative. Stories of Scorsese\u2019s early life, a load of which I didn\u2019t know about, were made yet more intriguing by the countless number of photographs that helped set the scene alongside key talking heads like Scorsese\u2019s parents, particularly his mother, who appeared in a lot of the director\u2019s early films. And this isn\u2019t a light-hearted, neat little overview of Scorsese\u2019s life, either. The episodes get into the wats and all struggles that Scorsese went through with substance abuse and his need for absolute control in the film proceedings. It\u2019s particularly awesome to see how his mind works in terms of the meticulous storyboarding he does months before the film has even been produced. He has every image and moment down to the dot, and it\u2019s just super cool to get into the mind of a supremely creative \u2013 and perhaps necessarily destructive \u2013 creative talent. You\u2019ve gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.\u00a0\u256e( \u02d8\u00a0\uff64\u00a0\u02d8 )\u256d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it\u2019s also really cool from a film nerd\u2019s perspective when you\u2019ve got comparison shots from Scorsese flicks with voices talking over and analysing them. It reminded me of a great YouTube channel called Every Frame A Painting, which goes into deep analysis about the ways in which films are composed. If you haven\u2019t seen it, definitely check it out. I\u2019ve seen a load of Scorsese\u2019s films, but it\u2019s so awesome (I keep using that word, but, y\u2019know, it is) to understand the context behind them and how Scorcese\u2019s personal background with gansters and religion played such a huge role in his work. \u208d\u208d\u269e(\u02f6\u02c3 \u1d55 \u02c2\u02f6)\u269f\u207e\u207e<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personal highlight, though? There\u2019s this fantastic anecdote where Scorsese and Robert de Niro are late for the Taxi Driver premier at Cannes, and there\u2019s seemingly nobody around to support with publicity. So Jodie Foster just rocks up to the interviewers and starts talking to them about the film in fluent French. I already knew Foster was a boss before watching this, but this genius image of the actress working the room just confirms it. Bravo. Anyway, if you\u2019re a film buff who knows their stuff, this is some genuine cinematic genius right here with some absolutely cracking footage. Pure cinema, you might say. \u0669(^\u15dc^ )\u0648\u00a0\u00b4-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Documentaries like this remind me why I love cinema. If you can get a free trial on Apple TV just to give this series a watch, it\u2019s definitely worth the effort. There are key ingredients to making a documentary work. Any documentary on any subject, for that matter, especially subjects you don\u2019t care about. I\u2019ve … <\/p>\n