Overview

• The Rebecca Miller–directed series debuted at the New York Film Festival on October 4 and will stream on Apple TV+ starting October 17.
• Miller centers roughly 20 hours of conversations with Scorsese, with on-camera appearances by Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster and others.
• The doc explores religion, marriages and fatherhood, including Scorsese’s on-camera admission that he was expelled from a Catholic preparatory seminary as a teenager.
• Initial reviews describe an engaging, reverent overview that downplays some facets of his legacy, including limited focus on The Film Foundation/World Cinema Project and skipping ‘Hugo.’
• The portrait situates Scorsese as creatively active in his 80s, noting his 2023 feature ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and a next film reported as ‘What Happens at Night.’