After Hours with Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne and Raymond De Felitta (Ep. 533)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In a special Anniversary Series discussion, Director Martin Scorsese discusses his film, After Hours, with Actor Griffin Dunne and fellow Director Raymond De Felitta in a screening at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, Scorsese discusses original concepts for the film’s end, how he aimed to find humor in the film by playing it seriously, and the change in reception as time went on. The film tells the story of Paul Hackett, an office drone who has a romantic encounter with a girl in a Manhattan café 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. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2025/April2025/ERSP_AnniversarySeries_AfterHours_0325

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0:00.0	We found that the longer the picture was, the less it played.
0:05.7	And I think the first cut was over two and a half hours.
0:09.4	And we had finally started cutting it down and cutting it down and cutting it down.
0:14.6	And we found that the faster it played, the more it satisfied the audience.
0:21.6	Hello and welcome back to The Directors' Cut, brought to by the Directors Guild of America.
0:45.7	In this episode, we are revisiting Martin Scorsese's 1985 absurdist comedy, After Hours, in honor of its 40th anniversary.
0:54.6	The film tells the story of Paul Hackett, an office drone who has a romantic encounter
0:59.5	with a girl in a Manhattan cafe and agrees to visit her Soho apartment.
1:04.5	The seemingly simple trip descends into a series of awkward, surreal, and life-threatening
1:09.5	situations with a colorful cast of characters,
1:12.3	as Paul spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.
1:17.6	In addition to After Hours, Scorsese's extensive directorial credits include the DGA Award
1:23.0	nominated feature films, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas,
1:29.7	Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver, the DGA Award-nominated documentary, George Harrison, Living in the
1:36.1	Material World, the DGA award-winning pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire, and the DGA award-winning
1:42.4	feature film The Departed. In 2003, Scorsese was honored with the DGA Award-winning feature film The Departed.
1:50.3	In 2003, Scorsese was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award and feature film.
1:56.6	Following the anniversary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,
2:03.9	Scorsese shared insight into the making of After Hours with fellow director Raymond DeFalida and the film star Griffin Dunn.
2:07.4	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
2:16.3	Hello, thank you.
2:17.3	Oh, my. Oh, hey.
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