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But Scorsese happily provided her a list of films to watch to get the voiceover to click\u2014\u201cOf course if you ask him that question, you\u2019re going to get a long answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
They stayed in touch, gave notes on each other\u2019s films, and saw each other socially. Years later, Miller was chatting with her producing partner Damon Cardasis<\/strong> about making another documentary. Cardasis asked, \u201cWho would be your favorite person?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe first person that popped in my head was Martin Scorsese,\u201d Miller said. \u201cAnd I think the reason was, it\u2019s such a rich subject. I was really interested in his Catholicism and his fascination with violence, how those two things work together.\u201d<\/p>\n They got together right before the pandemic, and when lockdown hit, they carried forward at Miller\u2019s country house.<\/p>\n \u201cWe, in a weird way, were lucky that he was so bored and so stuck because he traveled all the way upstate,\u201d she said. \u201cWe did it on the porch.\u201d<\/p>\n Five years later, Mr. Scorsese<\/em> is here in all its hours-long glory. The film rips, zipping ahead with the speed of one of its subject\u2019s more frenzied flicks, dispatching quickly with hundreds of talking heads. It\u2019s so expansive it seems definitive. One Apple exec compared it to The Last Dance,<\/em> the documentary about Michael Jordan:<\/strong> a similarly focused, leave-no-stone-unturned look at an unquestionable GOAT.<\/p>\n But like The Last Dance,<\/em> the doc shows its subject\u2019s setbacks. As the panelists reminded the gathered faithful: This was not inevitable.<\/p>\n \u201cSo Marty made Who\u2019s That Knocking at My Door?,<\/em> and then he got this deal to do this Roger Corman-produced movie called Boxcar Bertha,<\/em>\u201d said Imperioli, who had a very early film role in Goodfellas<\/em> as Spider, a lackey who meets a violent fate. \u201cCassavettes watched the movie and said to Marty, \u2018You just wasted a year of your life on a piece of shit.\u2019 This was his big thing in Hollywood, right? His second film. And he said, \u2018You shouldn\u2019t be doing stuff like this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n