You can’t keep a good man locked down. That’s the takeaway from Martin Scorsese’s new short film, a five-minute video shot by the director from his New York home.Scorsese submitted the film to the BBC’s Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard, which has previously featured Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren and other celebrities in its COVID-19-themed arts coverage.It opens with a clip of Henry Fonda in jail in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, the camera panning away from the screen to Scorsese raising the blinds, as though he’s in the same cell.
It ends on another jailhouse clip of Burt Lancaster in The Killers.In the minutes between these artistic bookends, the 77-year-old discusses the range of emotions he’s felt since lockdown began March 13. “At.