“And Scorsese is at the top of that list. “There’s a short list of directors that, if they call-no matter what they’re asking for-you do it,” says Andrew Garfield, leaning in as if confiding a secret, the most obvious one in the world. And if you’re wondering if Marty ever found his bird, rest easy: The film’s opening seconds in the darkness build to a deafening roar of chirps, the shriek of a land that won’t be tamed. It explores a spiritual agony last probed by Sweden’s mighty director Ingmar Bergman while being swaddled in a smoky fable-like texture that even Akira Kurosawa would have envied. It’s simply the kind of thing that doesn’t get made anymore. In Scorsese’s execution, Silence is more than just an Oscar contender, more than a masterpiece, even. Based on Shusaku Endo’s controversial 1966 novel about faith under fire, the film follows the plight of 17th-century Jesuit missionaries who travel from Portugal to Japan, which was at the time a mystery to the West.
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That movie this time around is Silence, the director’s long-cherished passion project come to fruition after nearly 30 years of development.
Marty is, of course, Martin Scorsese, the high priest of American cinema, maker of Mean Streets, Goodfellas and, occasionally, something that challenges and floors even his most ardent fans. But Marty was so open, in the midst of everything, to be aware of how the space was affecting the story.” And I don’t remember that bird! It was a detail I wasn’t absorbing. “We were shooting in the hills of Taiwan, and Marty kept hearing a certain kind of bird, asking everyone around, ‘What’s that bird sound I’m hearing? What’s that bird?’ It was really important for him to get it.
“ ‘What’s that bird?’ ” It’s maddeningly early for a Sunday morning, but Adam Driver, gleeful with his coffee and smoked salmon in the near-empty Brooklyn Heights café that’s his local favorite, is setting a scene.
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