{"id":17095,"date":"2023-05-29T18:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=17095"},"modified":"2023-05-29T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:35:52","slug":"martin-scorsese-meets-pope-francis-plans-to-make-a-new-film-about-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=17095","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese Meets Pope Francis, Plans to Make a New Film about Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>@Life Itself<\/pre>\n<p>After a highly anticipated premiere of Martin Scorsese\u2019s latest outing, \u201c<strong>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/strong>\u201d at the Cannes Film Festival, an American auteur stayed in Europe and went to Italy over the weekend and attended the Rome conference at the Vatican where he met with Pope Francis and announced that he will make a film about Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, \u2013 titled \u201cThe Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination,\u201d forty poets and writers from different countries showed up to participate at the Scorsese\u2019s meeting was with none other than Pope Francis himself, whom Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris met in a brief private audience which was organized by Jesuit publication La Civilt\u00e0 Cattolica and Georgetown University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have responded to the Pope\u2019s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,\u201d<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAnd I\u2019m about to start making it,\u201d the director added, suggesting that this could be his next film.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Regarding cinematic references, during the conversation Scorsese also cited his admiration for Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s \u201c<strong>The Gospel According to St. Matthew<\/strong>\u201d to discussing his own religious-themed films like \u201c<strong>The Last Temptation of Christ\u201d<\/strong> and \u201c<strong>Silence<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also participating in a series of screenings of his body of works, he will present on Monday at Rome\u2019s Casa del Cinema cinematheque; a master class on Tuesday for students of Rome\u2019s Centro Sperimentale film school; and an onstage conversation on Friday in Bologna where he will be a guest of the Cineteca di Bologna, the film archives that run the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival dedicated to heritage film.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re eagerly waiting for Martin Scorsese&#8217;s next picture &#8220;<strong><i>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/i><\/strong>,&#8221; fans of the acclaimed director can anticipate to his next project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Life Itself After a highly anticipated premiere of Martin Scorsese\u2019s latest outing, \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon\u201d at the Cannes Film Festival, an American auteur stayed in Europe and went to Italy over the weekend and attended the Rome conference at the Vatican where he met with Pope Francis and announced that he will make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16052,5246,243,5353,215,16053,15909],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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