Martin Scorsese trash talks streaming services in latest snooty rant
nypost.comauteur filmmakers who engage in Netflix-bashing, iconic director Martin Scorsese has eviscerated streaming platforms for supposedly devaluing the “art of cinema” due to a lack of “curation.”The legendary “Goodfellas” director — already a noted non-fan of blockbusters from Marvel — dropped the bombshell in an essay on filmmaking icon Federico Fellini published in the March 2021 issue of Harper’s Magazine.While admitting he owes a lot to online film purveyors (“The Irishman” was distributed to much acclaim by “Netflix” after all), Scorsese, 78, argued that today’s movie scene is being “reduced to its lowest common denominator” by the designation of films as “content.”“As recently as 15 years ago, the term ‘content’ was heard only when people.
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