2025-03-25
39 分钟We found that the longer the picture was, the less it played.
And I think the first cut was over two and a half hours and we had finally started cutting it down and cutting it down and cutting it down.
And we found that the faster it played, the more it satisfied the audience.
Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
In this episode,
we are revisiting Martin Scorsese's 1985 absurdist comedy After Hours in honor of its 40th anniversary.
The film tells the story of Paul Hackett,
an office drone who has a romantic encounter with a girl in a Manhattan cafe and agrees to visit her Soho apartment.
The seemingly simple trip descends into a series of awkward,
surreal and life threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters as Paul spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.
In addition to After Hours,
Scorsese's extensive directorial credits include include the DGA Award nominated feature films,
Killers of the Flower Moon, the Irishman, the Wolf of Wall street, goodfellas,
Raging Bull and Taxi Driver,
the DGA Award nominated documentary George Living in the Material World,
the DGA Award winning pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire,
and the DGA Award winning feature film the departed.
In 2003, Scorsese was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award feature Film.
Following the anniversary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,
Scorsese shared insight into the making of After Hours with Fellow Director Raymond DeFolita and the film's star,