Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3

“This box is, like, Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, and in here there is one film that is a classic in Brazil, it’s called Pixote, directed by Héctor Babenco. And in the same collection… Scorsese knows. He knows shit. He chose a film that no one really knows outside… and even in Brazil, it’s a film directed by Mário Peixoto, called Limite.”

“This is a special box with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and one of the films is Pixote, which happens to be one of the great Brazilian films. It's an incredibly emotional film about the world I think and life in society. Pixote also makes me think of Nick Cave. Nick Cave is a big fan of Pixote's film.”

“This is Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, which has several films on it, several that I don't know, but the one that I do know and that the reason why I'm getting it because I don't know how to get it otherwise, it's Pixote. One of the sub themes of it is the kind of evolution of a criminal which I explored in my thesis film at the AFI and you know some of what I saw in the movie and what from my own experiences or actually what I what I you know kind of saw around me in the area that I...”

“And on the subject of Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation, which I’m a part of, I’m going to grab the box set from the World Cinema Project. It’s part of Marty’s project to really take what he’s done with The Film Foundation for American cinema and do it with different film industries around the world and really try and look at films in desperate need of preservation.”