THE IRISHMAN: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE
BOOK
TOM SHONE ASSOULINE
Compulsion or calling? Either way, Martin Scorsese’s deep-seated and driving devotion to cinema resonates powerfully in Tom Shone’s in-depth and handsome Making Of, devoted to The Irishman and its creators’ long, storied journeys.
Initially, US critic Shone () plots a brisk route from to the Copacabana and Umberto’s Clam House, braided with fleeting nods to unmade films (oh, to see that feature about Marty and De Niro in ’70s Hollywood…). But Shone’s grip tightens as he shows how brings its makers’ careers full circle, back to Mulberry and Hester Street for a new kind of crime story: “a tragedy of male friendship”, marked spiritually and physically by age.
