KUNDUN

Please let me know what you thought of this week's film. Feel free to make connections between this work and the previous films of Martin Scorsese's that we've screened throughout the semester. Also, I mentioned in class what Bernardo Bertolucci called and asked Scorsese just as he was about to start shooting Kundun: "Have you learned that everything is form and form is emptiness?" If you can, consider how this question structurally and aesthetically applies to this very spiritual film.

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

This film is often considered a great departure from Martin Scorsese's previous offerings. Respond freely to what you thought about it. Please try to articulate the ways in which The Age of Innocence is similar and/or different to the other Scorsese films we've seen this semester. Also, if you can, consider the ways in which Scorsese aesthetically achieves, as he says in the interview I handed out last week, "that sense of memory and loss, deja vu almost."

I look forward to reading what you write. Have fun with it!

GOODFELLAS & CASINO

Let me know what you thought of the excerpts we saw in class this week. Free style.

Also, how do the pictures of Martin Scorsese's that we've been watching every Tuesday for the past two months inform your understanding of Goodfellas and Casino now? If you've seen the films before, please incorporate into your response the ways (if any) that your feelings about them have changed.