'Manchester' captures the drift and flow of daily life and conveys its pungent poetry. Denzel Washington brings August Wilson’s 'Fences' to the screen with skill.
"La La Land" pays tribute to, and revives, the glittery, glamoury musicals of the 1940s; "Silence" is a kind of breakthrough for Martin Scorsese: a new quiet.
"Loving" avoids the impersonal feel of most docudramas; it is a movie of soft voices in homely settings. History is made without cinematic exclamation points.
Martin Scorsese talks about apostasy and faith, and how some of the films he's made (and some he's influenced by) have taken up these ideas in different ways.
Martin Scorsese talks about the challenges of filing a story set four hundred years ago, the similarities between Endo and Graham Greene, and the idea of vocation.