MARTIN SCORSESE GETS REAL

You can’t keep a good man locked down. That’s the take-away from Martin Scorsese’s new short film, a five-minute video the director shot from his New York home.

Scorsese, shown, submitted the film to the BBC’S Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard. It opens with a clip of Henry Fonda in jail in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, the camera panning away from the screen to Scorsese raising the blinds, as though he’s in the same cell. It ends on another jailhouse clip of Burt Lancaster in The Killers.

In the minutes between these artistic bookends, the 77-year-old discusses the range of emotions he’s felt since lockdown began March 13. “At first there was a day or so of a kind of relief. I didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything,” he says. “But then the anxiety set in.”