a new image from the film - our first look at Adam Driver
In very good news for butts of all shapes and sizes, news came this morning that Martin Scorsese's Silence is no longer going to be his longest feature film ever. That dubious honor will continue to be held by the excruciatingly long winded duo of Casino and Wolf of Wall Street. It seems that Marty and his trusted editor Thelma Schoonmaker have whittled away some 22 minutes from the earlier reported running time of 3 hours and 1 minute (or thereabouts)...
Scorsese has become more and more longwinded over the years as you'll see in this handy list below. It's a shame too because if 2 hours and 9 minutes is enough for Raging Bull of all epic things it's enough for the others, you know? Hugo is the only film the prolific Scorsese has made in our current century that clocks in at less than 2¼ hours and even at 2 hours and 6 minutes it feels bloated. Even a Scorsese we love like New York New York (1977) would surely be better remembered and possibly even beloved today if it were much tighter.
Scorsese's 24 in Ascending Order from Reasonably Sized To Way Too Long...
My three very favorite Scorseses are in bold just because
- Boxcar Bertha (1972) 1h 28min
- Who's That Knocking At My Door (1967) 1h 30min
- After Hours (1985) 1h 37min
- King of Comedy (1983) 1h 49min
- Mean Streets (1973) 1h 52min
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 1h 52 min - Taxi Driver (1976) 1h 53 min
- The Color of Money (1986) 1h 59min
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 2h 1min
- Hugo (2010) 2h 6min
- Cape Fear (1991) 2h 8min
- Raging Bull (1981) 2h 9 min
- Kundun (1997) 2h 14min
the ass challengers - all over 2¼ hours - Shutter Island (2010) 2h 18min
- The Age of Innocence (1993) 2h 19min
- Goodfellas (1990) 2h 26min
- The Departed (2006) 2h 31min
- New York New York (1977) 2h 35min
- Silence (2016) 2hr 39 min
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 2h 44min
- Gangs of New York (2002) 2h 47min
- The Aviator (2004) 2h 50min
- Casino (1995) 2h 58min -Least favorite Scorsese
- Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 3h
In other fresh news about the picture, we had long wondered who the costume designer was since no one had previously been announced and Sandy Powell wasn't reported to be working on it (as she usually does). As it turns out, Marty's frequent production designer Dante Ferretti pulled double duty this time, also doing the costumes. It's his first costume design gig since the time he pulled double duty on Scorsese's Kundun (Oscar rewarded Ferretti with double nominations that year for his trouble. Will they do that again.)
I guess it's time to update the Oscar charts yet again?