I had the massive pleasure of attending TIFF’s recently finished retrospective on the directorial works of Martin Scorsese, mainly in honor of the release of The Irishman. Unfortunately, I only got to see about half of the films screened for the retrospective, but in reflection of the fantastic event and in anticipation of the coming retrospective on his documentary work, this was still a good place to start. Going in order of films viewed, below...
If you’ve been following this site, then you would have known that Silence has already been reviewed on this site. For a deeper analysis, I recommend you read Josh Tarpley’s earlier review. I won’t be doing a full on review per se but since it is a big film, I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on it. My opinion should not come as much of a surprise.
I’m a little late on this one but I couldn’t stay silent. This is a big one and I probably didn’t need to tell you that. This movie had pretty much been a mystery until the trailer was released. Anything from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese will be highly anticipated and rightfully so. This is definitely a different story. It is about two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver), in the seventeenth century, who faced violence...
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