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Martin Scorsese on Working With Robbie Robertson on Flower Moon Music as the Culmination of a Year Friendship: ‘I Just Miss Robbie. Period’
“I just miss Robbie, period,” says Martin Scorsese, talking about a professional and personal relationship with Robbie Robertson that lasted 47 years. “The friendship, the work, the tales he told — all of it.
Although the filmmaker has already declared his intentions to shoot a new project in — an adaptation of “A Life of Jesus” by the late Japanese author Shsaku End — Scorsese still has his head very much in his darkly poetic “Killers of the Flower Moon” and the late, great musical collaborator and friend who composed its haunting score.
“It meant a lot to both of us that we did this project together,” Scorsese told Variety on Friday, noting that “Killers of the Flower Moon was a kind of culmination” of their entire worki
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- By Rich Tupica
Robbie Robertson, who comes from Mohawk and Cayuga descent, is best known for his work with the legendary rock group The Band, but also plenty of other recordings, including a release with a Native American group, the Red Road ’s kept busy for decades, but over the last couple weeks, he has been making even more headlines after a new, globally inspired version of his band's most iconic song — “The Weight" — saw a resurgence online and started to go viral following the onset of the COVID pandemic.
Back in September, the song was posted on YouTube by Playing for Change, a group “created to inspire and connect the world through music, born from the shared belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people.” Robertson’s son, Sebastian, produced the video along with Mark Johnson.
Filmed over a two-year span with musicians from around the globe, the re-recording of the epicall
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