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The Wolf of Wall Street

Opens Friday, Nov 15, 2013 Synopsis: Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio on this adaptation of Jordan Belfort's memoir surrounding his indulgent ride as a crooked banker made headlines in the 1990's. Terrence Winter provides the screenplay. Jonah Hill and Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Jon Bernthal Movie Details Buy Tickets Movie Review

'Hugo' is magical but the timing's off

Martin Scorsese making a film from a children's book is as improbable as, well, Martin Scorsese making a film from a children's book. But with its beautiful panoramic...

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Art
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

Now Playing Synopsis: Born in Arkansas in 1940, Levon Helm started playing music before anyone thought up the name rock & roll, and after taking up the drums, he teamed with Ronnie Hawkins, a fellow Arkansan who was becoming a popular rockabilly star in Canada. In time, Helm and his bandmates parted ways with Hawkins to go out on their own, and after a spell as Bob Dylan's backing group they became known as the Band, recording a handful of the most honored rock albums of the 1960s and '70s. When guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson decided to break up the Band in 1976, the group's final concert was a major musical event which spawned Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary The Last Waltz. But Levon Helm wasn't done with music by a long shot, and in spite of three decades that would have tested any man's patience -- including troubles with drug addiction, unpaid record royalties, bankruptcy, legal skirmishes over the rights to his music, accidentally shooting himself in the leg, the death of two of his closest friends, and a battle with throat cancer -- in 2008 Helm had a banner year as he earned a Grammy nomination for his first studio album in years, {^Dirt Farmer}, and he was given a lifetime achievement award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Filmmaker Jacob Hatley offers an intimate look at a legend of American music as he struggles to keep moving forward against long odds in the documentary Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, which was an official selection at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Cast: Levon Helm, Amy Helm, Larry Campbell, Billy Bob Thornton Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Arts & Culture event calendar

...a thing of the past and digital the wave of the future in this eye-opening documentary featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, David Lynch, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle, George Lucas, Robert Rodriguez...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-06/art-events-music
Art
Buddhist brings meditation message

...mountain-climber and truth-seeker in ``Seven Years in Tibet,'' or Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha in ``Little Buddha,'' or Martin Scorsese's operatic ``Kundun.'' While those recent movies form a more benevolent depiction of Tibetan Buddhism than...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102199/Loc_buddhist.html
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Library's DVDs cover a wide range of topics

...that traces the origins of the Blues as a musical tradition. Each disc contains a movie by a different director (Martin Scorsese, Charles Burnett, and Clint Eastwood are a few) allowing us a glimpse of the director's take on the music, a...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062004/boo_libdvd.shtml
Books
Outside column: Independent producers fight the conglomerates

...hatched the film careers of Kevin Costner, Trey Parker, Robert DeNiro, Marisa Tomei, Madonna, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and scores of other stars. Averaging the latest figures available from 2004-07, independents...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071709/opi_465133420.shtml
Award winning author does things the old-fashioned way

...mustache beneath a balding pate. His enthusiasm for the city's history is evident in his voice; it was evident to Martin Scorsese, too, who used him as an adviser on the film "Gangs of New York." After writing about 19th-century New York...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100606/boo_20061006002.shtml
Books
Looking ahead

...it is literally too long and you can just assume it has at least three actors you like and two that you don't. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are together again in "Shutter Island" (Feb. 19). Kevin Smith helms a buddy-cop movie...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012810/art_555996195.shtml
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Scorsese's rock documentary on DVD

'Shine a Light' It sounds like a match made in rock 'n' roll heaven: The Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese, who blazed trails when he loaded his early film "Mean Streets" with a hip rock soundtrack and made the great rock documentary...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/073108/mov_311999119.shtml

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