Martin Scorsese Subject of New Apple TV+ Documentary Mr. Scorsese

Director Martin Scorsese is used to being behind the camera, but now he is the subject in the documentary Mr. Scorsese.Martin Scorsese has directed more than a dozen documentaries, from The Last Waltz to No Direction Home. But now the filmmaker is about to turn the cameras on himself in a new five-part series for Apple TV+.


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Rebecca Miller, the filmmaker behind Personal Velocity: Three Portraits and She Came To Me , is set to direct Mr. Scorsese for the streamer.

The project is a five-part film portrait of the legendary director behind Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon and more.

Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, and wife of Scorsese collaborator Daniel Day-Lewis, has been granted exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese's private archives.

The documentary is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family and creative collaborators including Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with his children, wife Helen Morris and close childhood friends.

It will explore how his own colorful life experiences have influenced his artistic vision, from student films at New York University like The Big Shave, Who's That Knocking At My Front Door — his first feature film — to his classics, starting with Mean Streets, and his more recent work.

As Scorsese recently said, he also has no plans to retire.

“I am so grateful to have been given the artistic freedom and access to create a cinematic portrait of one of our greatest living artists, Martin Scorsese,” said Miller. “His work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five-year period; crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has been one of the defining experiences of my life as a filmmaker.”

Mr. Scorsese is Apple’s latest documentary about an iconic figure, following the greenlighting of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me and STEVE! (martin), a two-part documentary, as well as an upcoming documentary about Fleetwood Mac.