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Silence

Sunday, Apr 23, 2017

Location: Redstone Theater

With Martin Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and screenwriter Jay Cocks in person

Dir. Martin Scorsese. 2016, 161 mins, DCP. With Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds, Issei Ogata. Martin Scorsese’s latest film is an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s celebrated novel about Christian missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. An intense drama about faith and doubt, Silence is one of the director’s great passion projects; he first read the novel in 1989 and Jay Cocks wrote the first draft of the screenplay in 1992. Screening followed by a discussion with Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Rodrigo Prieto, and Jay Cocks.

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“There is a moment in Silence where the holy man played by Andrew Garfield looks down into a Japanese mountain stream and, for an instant, sees the face of Jesus Christ peering back at him. It’s the keynote image of a film whose hero is forced to confront two equally terrifying possibilities—that the Son of God is either indifferent to his suffering or absent altogether—and as such, it’s appropriately complex and double-edged: a crystalline hallucination at once suggestive of pride and humility but which also combines a long-standing mythological and artistic lineage.”

Read Adam Nayman on Silence at Reverse Shot >