Catholic Film Reviews

Rumors have circulated for a long time that acclaimed filmmaker and seminary dropout, Martin Scorsese, was planning on directing a movie adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s powerful novel, Silence, a masterpiece of Catholic fiction. The National Catholic Register is reporting that the rumors are true, and frequent Scorsese collaborator/legendary art director, Dante Ferretti, was doing research [...]

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Directed by Martin Scorsese
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder
Martin Scorsese directing a Merchant-Ivory film might superficially describe The Age of Innocence, but it would do an injustice to both parties. This is a Marty movie through and through — beautifully filmed, expertly acted, and thematically obsessed with guilt, passion, and moral failings.
Newland [...]

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