Long before anybody outside of Martin Scorsese’s inner circle had seen “The Irishman,” the gangster epic sat near the top of many Oscar-watchers lists of the films most likely to contend for the Best Picture Oscar.
And now that the film has screened at the New York Film Festival and for critics and journalists in Los Angeles, it’s going to stay there.
Based on the book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” about Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed he killed Jimmy Hoffa, “The Irishman” is big and bold and monumental, which are usually good things for Oscar voters. Scorsese’s last narrative feature, the Best Picture nominee “The Wolf of Wall Street,” had the manic energy of youth to it, but his new film is a meditative, melancholy old man’s story, which might hit closer to the Academy demographic than “Wolf” did.
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And now that the film has screened at the New York Film Festival and for critics and journalists in Los Angeles, it’s going to stay there.
Based on the book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” about Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed he killed Jimmy Hoffa, “The Irishman” is big and bold and monumental, which are usually good things for Oscar voters. Scorsese’s last narrative feature, the Best Picture nominee “The Wolf of Wall Street,” had the manic energy of youth to it, but his new film is a meditative, melancholy old man’s story, which might hit closer to the Academy demographic than “Wolf” did.
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- 9/28/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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