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Martin Scorsese in 2024.. After Raging Bull in the early 1980s, Martin Scorsese considered quitting filmmaking, wanting to travel to Rome to shoot a series of television documentaries on the lives of different saints: "I literally thought it would be my last film," said Scorsese in 2016, referring to Raging Bull.
The Mean Streets andGangs of New York filmmaker became fascinated by statues of saints that were positioned around this house of prayer.. The saints — deceased figures who lived holy lives and ...
Scorsese has been drawn to saints since his days growing up in Lower Manhattan in the 1940s and 50s. He attended elementary school at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral on Mott Street, where he was ...
In his 1973 movie Mean Streets, about Catholic New Yorker Charlie (Harvey Keitel), ... Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints premieres on Fox Nation on Sunday, Nov. 17. Show comments.
The first four episodes of “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” will debut in November. The remaining four will air by May 2025. The Oscar winner, who briefly pursued becoming a priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times in January that his next film would be an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s book “A Life of Jesus."
Now, he's finally realized it in “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket ...
Lesham created Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, an eight-part docudrama TV series, with Martin Scorsese narrating the lives of eight Christian saints, and Lesham producing. [ 5 ] In 2009, Leshem, then a "marketing executive" married Lynn Harris, a film executive, at the Parker Palm Springs hotel in Palm Springs, California, with Rabbi ...
Scorsese at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Martin Scorsese (born 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian whose career spans more than fifty years. To date, Scorsese has directed twenty-six feature length narrative films, seventeen feature-length documentary films, and has co-directed ...