But Scorsese has also tackled religious ideas more explicitly, most recently with Silence, which explored the nature of ...

Based on a novel by Shusaku Endo and a 1971 film by Masahiro Shinoda, Silence could easily have been titled “Quest,” but Scorsese’s stress on the noncommunication between man and God gives ...

A dense fog covers many of the early scenes of 17th-century Japan in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, the film adaptation of Japanese Catholic Shusaku Endo’s novel of the same name, which the ...

Scorsese has been on a creative roll for the last decade, making an irreverent black comedy about unencumbered greed ("The Wolf of Wall Street"), a passion project about faith and doubt ("Silence ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in ... into “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Kundun,” “Silence” — the ones that were obviously in that realm of what ...

Martin Scorsese may be one of the godfathers of ... energies into ‘The Last Temptation of Christ,’ ‘Kundun,’ ‘Silence’ — the ones that were obviously in that realm of what you ...

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has explored religious history and Catholic tradition across several titles in his famed filmography, from The Last Temptation of Christ to Kundun and Silence.