Scorcese Says Modern Cinema Sucks

Martin Scorcese says modern cinema is a bit shitty.  And that television isn’t much better.

In a new interview with Associated Press, the director elaborates on a previous similar statement, saying the kind of movie making he was a part of has essentially faded away:

“Cinema is gone. The cinema I grew up with and that I’m making, it’s gone. The theater will always be there for that communal experience, there’s no doubt. But what kind of experience is it going to be? Is it always going to be a theme-park movie? I sound like an old man, which I am. The big screen for us in the ’50s, you go from Westerns to ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ to the special experience of ‘2001’ in 1968. The experience of seeing ‘Vertigo’ and ‘The Searchers’ in VistaVision.”

Scorcese also takes TV down a peg or two;

“TV, I don’t think has taken that place. Not yet. I tried it. I had success to a certain extent. ‘Vinyl’ we tried but we found that the atmosphere for the type of picture we wanted to make – the nature of the language, the drugs, the sex, depicting the rock ‘n’ roll world of the ’70s – we got a lot of resistance. So I don’t know about that freedom.”