I'm Sean Fennesee.

I'm Amanda Davins.

And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about movie stars again.

That's right, we're capping our week dedicated to ranking the 35 movie stars over the age

of 35 and numbers 231 are coming up right now on the Big Picture.

Amanda, before we get back to movie stars, there's a very important piece of content that

we need to address.

Oh, boy.

There was a column written for Harper's Magazine.

Do you remember Harper's Magazine?

Are you a subscriber to Harper's?

I'm no longer a subscriber to Harper's for things that have nothing to do with this wonderful

essay, a cover story essay, as I understand it, by the one and only, Martin Scorsese.

And I really enjoyed the whole thing, even the parts that you have decided not to reproduce

in full in our outline here.

But go ahead.

Well, so the essay is essentially an ode to Federico Follini, the glorious Italian filmmaker

and clearly a major inspiration in Scorsese's life.

But he, in writing this ode to Follini, he used it as an opportunity to explore an issue

that is at the forefront of Mr. Scorsese's mind.

A lot of the time really in the last few years, it seems like, which is the incursion of

content on the world of cinema.

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