Shutter Island

[Hunter Rider]

SHOTGUN! *Carmine grumbles about lack of blood*

 

[Dark Donnie]

Definately not enough blood


Brief write up:

Ashecliffe’ star Leonardo DiCaprio, directed by Martin Scorsese, shoots a climatic scene on Nahant’s East Point yesterday (see photos) under heavy security on land and sea. Leo, looking rather ferocious and terrified, brandished a rifle behind an electrified fence near a makeshift lighthouse built for the movie.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Shotguns, blood-stained psychopaths....Now we're talking.....

 

[Cinemaman]

When have they started filming?

P.S. Set pics look great, I can already imagine what a classic it will be.

 

[Dark Donnie]

I think back in March, not 100% though

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I can already imagine what a classic it will be.

Normally I would say that you think every upcoming movie will be a classic (which you really, really do) but this time, I'll agree. This is Scorsese, so that means that there's at least an 80% chance that it will be very good, and yes, maybe even a classic.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Courtesy of Donnie.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Thanks Hunter Good to finally get a shot of Ruffalo....

 

[Dark Donnie]

Ashecliffe Wraps Up Filming

DiCaprio, crew cap ‘Ashecliffe’ shoot
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Updated 1h ago

Time has run out on Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese’s time in the Bay State filming “Ashecliffe,” the big-budget adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel noir “Shutter Island.”

Yesterday, the cast and crew shot their final scenes in the North End, and tonight they’ve booked passage on the Spirit of Boston for their bon voyage booze cruise. And who could blame them?

Scorsese’s movie mob has been kicking around these parts since oh-so-dreary February and began shooting the first week in March down at the oh-so-dreary Whittenton Mills in Taunton.

The mills, BTW, were remade into a German concentration camp for the flick. So don’t expect a feel-good flick when this one hits theaters next year!

As we’ve told you before, the set-in-the-’50s film is about a pair of U.S. marshals, played by Leo and Mark Ruffalo, who investigate the disappearance of a female patient from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a Massachusetts island.

Cameras rolled yesterday at the Waterfront Cafe on Commercial Street and up on Henchman Street where a few actors were filmed playing stickball. DiCaprio, allegedly, was wrapping up scenes at creepy Medfield State Hospital, which stands in for the aforementioned insane asylum. But our spies caught him chowing at Cafeteria on Newbury Street at lunchtime. Hmmm.

During the four-month shoot, the crew also hauled their cameras to Nahant, the Crane Estate, East Boston, a Hyde Park soundstage and other garden spots here in the commonwealth.

And speaking of the Garden, one of the Track’s fave nights during the Boston Celtics [team stats]’ run-up to the NBA Championship was seeing Leo - who sat courtside at many, many games during the season - banished to the luxury suites because his ex-galpal Gisele Bundchen and her BF Tom Brady [stats] were sitting in the primo seats downstairs. It takes so little to make us happy . . .

Thankfully, Gisele aka “Jinxele,” never returned to the Garden party. But Leo was in da house all through the Finals, where he watched his beloved Los Angeles Lakers drown in Game 6. DiCaprio was so disgusted that he left in the third quarter!

Love that pic

 

[Gotham]

I thought they just started filming?

They really managed to prevent leaks, then.

 

[Dark Donnie]

I thought they just started filming?

They really managed to prevent leaks, then.

I believe filming started in March. That's why the DiCaprio pic was a suprise...they'd been filming for so long and the first pic didn't get snapped of hmi till last month. Im guessing most of his stuff was done in the asylum.

 

[Cinemaman]

Normally I would say that you think every upcoming movie will be a classic (which you really, really do) but this time, I'll agree. This is Scorsese, so that means that there's at least an 80% chance that it will be very good, and yes, maybe even a classic.

No, I don't think that every new film is a 100% classic. My opinion usually depends on several facets such as who is a director, who are cast and what is the whole story about.

 

[Gotham]

I never saw the Jackie Earle Hayley pictures. Man, this film is going to be weird.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

No, I don't think that every new film is a 100% classic.

You say it, or write it actually, quite often. I've noticed. You view films strongly in their cultural context as classics or future classics even before you've seen the film or even a single frame. And truth is, you can only name a film a classic, or modern classic, YEARS after release.

But anyway, let's stay on topic.

 

[Cinemaman]

You say it, or write it actually, quite often. I've noticed. You view films strongly in their cultural context as classics or future classics even before you've seen the film or even a single frame. And truth is, you can only name a film a classic, or modern classic, YEARS after release.

But anyway, let's stay on topic.

No, wait. What's wrong, if I say that this or that film may be a classic basing my opinion on very important aspects? I don't say they ARE classics, I say they MAY BE classics.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

No, wait. What's wrong, if I say that this or that film may be a classic basing my opinion on very important aspects? I don't say they ARE classics, I say they MAY BE classics.

Yeah I know....and what I think is that it's kinda early to be thinking about that sort of thing. Let's see if the movie's any good for starters you know?

Then I guess you mean with ''classic'' just a really good movie?

 

[Cinemaman]

Yeah I know....and what I think is that it's kinda early to be thinking about that sort of thing. Let's see if the movie's any good for starters you know?

Then I guess you mean with ''classic'' just a really good movie?

Classic means a masterpiece for me. I think that certain films look like they're going to be classics, because they have a high potential to be so. That's all.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Aschecliffe Scorsese's masterpiece? You're expecting quite the movie....

 

[Cinemaman]

Aschecliffe Scorsese's masterpiece? You're expecting quite the movie....

I am saying it may be his another achievement equal to The Departed or even greater than it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Well ive bought the book so once i read i will know if Scorsese masterpiece material to work with. t:

 

[Cinemaman]

Well ive bought the book so once i read i will know if Scorsese masterpiece material to work with. t:

I am looking forward to your review, hope you'll enjoy it

 

[Dark Donnie]

Not much but...

 

[Thunder Emperor]

I think back in March, not 100% though

That was actually in June, I was on set as an orderly for close to 3 months.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Mark Ruffalo Talks Shutter Island September 24th, 2008 by James Cook | Source: MTV

While we still have to wait a year to see Martin Scorsese’s next film, Shutter Island, one of the film’s star, Mark Ruffalo, has decided to build up the anticipation right now. He recently told MTV what to expect from the film.

“It is Martin Scorsese’s playground with this movie. He gets to do everything he loves about film,” Ruffalo insisted. “He does noir, fantasy sequences, dream sequences, madness, suspense, tough urban stuff. Its absolute madness and twist upon twist. This could be one of his great films.”

The film also stars Leonard DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley. Based on the Dennis Lehane novel, it follows Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), who is investigating the disappearance of a murder who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

The screenplay was written by Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander) and Steven Knight (Eastern Promises). It opens October 2, 2009.

http://themovingpicture.net/mark-ruffalo-talks-shutter-island

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Sounds really great.