Martin Scorsese shot his latest movie in his own home

Martin Scorsese is not about to sit back and let this pandemic pass by while he puts up his feet in whatever kind of opulent mansion that the director who made Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, and (most recently) The Irishman can afford. Filmmakers need to make films, and Scorsese, who’s been sitting in the director’s chair since 1959, will not let lockdown stop him. Instead, he’s shot his latest movie inside his New York City home.The director got back behind the camera for the BBC as part of their Lockdown Culture series hosted by beloved British intellectual, Mary Beard. The series has also hosted Lee Daniels, Margaret Atwood, Emma Thompson, Helen Mirren and Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke.Scorsese says that quarantine has been strange for him, someone who’s used to having a very full work schedule. "At first, it was a day or so of a kind of relief. I didn't have to go anywhere or do anything. I mean, I had to do everything, but I didn't have to do it then. It was a kind of relief. And then the anxiety set in." To quell that feeling, he’s doing the same thing a lot of us are: WFH and scheduling family Zoom calls.

 

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The short film he’s made looks at what life under lockdown is like for him in New York, one of the cities hardest hit by COVID-19. “What I look forward to in the future is carrying with me what I have been forced to learn in these circumstances,” said Scorsese in a statement about the episode. “It is essential. The people you love. Being able to take care of them and be with them as much as you can.”The director appears in the series’ final episode, airing today on BBC channels. Beard has given audiences a sneak peek, saying, “We see him at home, thinking about lockdown through the lens of classic movies, like Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man. But what’s really clever is that this great Hollywood luminary also gets us to look at Hitchcock again and afresh through the lens of our current predicament,” she adds. “I was absolutely over the moon when he agreed to do it for us. It feels a bit like hosting a little premiere.”