The Irishman
Walk past any place where movie posters are seen, and a movie poster that you might see is for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. It sounds like a London gangster caper, the type of film which which Ritchie is associated—although the Sherlock Holmes films and Aladdin are all a successful departure. And Martin Scorsese is famed for GoodFellas and Casino… but he has also made Age of Innocence. This isn’t to say that Ritchie is the British Scorsese, but rather that when a Director returns to his point of greatest success it’s either a source of much positive press (in the case of Martin Scorsese) or eye-rolling (for Ritchie). And maybe this isn’t fair. Scorsese has made some comments about populist film sagas, and has made his latest film for Netflix. It screened in cinemas but in a way Netflix is good because at almost three and a half hours, The Irishman spans the clock the way its story spans the calendar. This is done through digital de-ageing of its stars Robert DeNiro and Joe ...