Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Pontius Pilate: It's one thing to want to change 

the way people live; but you want to change 

how they think, how they feel.

Jesus: All I'm saying is that change will happen 

with love, not with killing.

Pontius Pilate: Either way, it's dangerous. It's against Rome. 

It's against the way the world is. And killing or loving, 

it's all the same. It simply doesn't matter how you want 

to change things. We don't want them changed.

A happy 83rd birthday to the living legend Martin Scorsese! Who's watched the doc Mr. Scorsese that landed on Apple last month? I plowed through it pretty quickly once I emerged out from under all my film festival duties and I came away with two main thoughts - one, it totally could've been a couple of episodes longer. Starting with Cape Fear (which he casually dismissed, much to my Cape Fear loving chagrin) the momentum got moving too fast -- they didn't even mention Hugo! And Hugo is great! That's only a complaint insofar as wanting more of a thing can be a complaint -- otherwise it was great. 

My second main thought though -- well now I have to re-watch every Scorsese movie. I re-watch my faves like The Age of Innocence, After Hours, Taxi Driver, probably once a year. (I made a Top 5 list for Marty's birthday three years ago that hasn't changed.) But there are several that I haven't seen in a very long time, including the film quoted up top (it's been decades) and Raging Bull. So I think over the holidays I'm going to be making a project of re-watching several Scorsese movies. I actually don't think I've seen The Departed since it came out!