Last month, the legends sat down for a conversation about the soul of cinema, and luckily enough, cameras were recording.In a rare and intimate conversation hosted by TIME, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese sat down to pull back the curtain on a partnership that has spanned over two decades and six (soon to be seven) iconic films.The convo ranged from all the work they've done together to the idea that movies need to have soul and feel alive to get them excited.Let's dive in.Your Movie Needs SoulThe collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio is one of the all-time greats between an actor and a filmmaker. It sort of feels like these two feed off each other, and their best work comes from how they reflect on their personal points of view and mesh them together. Early in the video, DiCaprio reflected on his career and talked about how his father pointed to Scorsese’s work with Robert De Niro as the gold standard for any actor. Now, DiCaprio has lived up to that standard and forged his own legacy with the auteur and made some classics himself. Scorsese describes their work together as a "renaissance" for his own career. I thought the most touching part was that he said DiCaprio feels like a contemporary because of his boundless curiosity and deep knowledge of film history.The Art of "The Cinema Education"Okay, so the main part of the talk I think NFS readers will appreciate is Scorsese’s process of "screening" films for his actors...
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