09 May 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

Sounds like acclaimed director and producer Martin Scorsese has an affinity for the sound of harmonica music in his films. His last film, The Irishman, used my harmonica to hint at impending murders. His upcoming film, “Killer of the Flower Moon,” also features my sound – you’ll have to wait to hear exactly how. Nevertheless, I’m proud to be the featured harmonicist in both. Thanks Robbie Robertson for tapping me to contribute to the score. This film and its premiere in Cannes, France is special for me on so many levels.

For me, this movie and its French premiere at Cannes are significant for a variety of reasons.
I’m French, and what better way to celebrate my 50th birthday than by being featured in Cannes as a part of a Scorsese production? I previously played at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago as a band member on the TV show Nulles Part Ailleurs (Canal Plus). I returned in 2001 to wed an amazing woman I met at the 52 Annual Film Festival and returned to celebrate our anniversary a year later. While on tour with Prince, we performed at the Palais Club in Cannes until the sun came up, following our stadium show in Nice. It appears that Scorsese hasn’t visited Cannes in 37 years so this would be a suitable homecoming for us both.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Everything to Know About Martin Scorsese’s $200 Million Western Epic

After years of production delays and ballooning budgets, Scorsese’s film finally debuts this fall.

BY SAMANTHA BERGESON

Martin Scorsese is tackling one of his most ambitious film projects yet with “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The filmmaker’s follow-up to his 10-time Oscar nominee “The Irishman” and his first collaboration with Apple Films, “Flower Moon” brings Scorsese into the Western genre for the first time and reunites him with some of his most prolific actors and crafts collaborators (yes, of course, Thelma Schoonmaker is editing).

IndieWire rounds up all the details Scorsese fans need to know about the film, which will bow in theaters before streaming this fall — and after its Cannes debut.

The Running Time Revealed

Deadline first reported that Scorsese locked his cut of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and the film headed to Cannes clocks in at 3 hours and 26 minutes. That’s three minutes shorter than “The Irishman,” which was 3 hours and 29 minutes and means this isn’t his longest movie as reports suggested.

Leonardo DiCaprio Thinks the Film Is a ‘Masterpiece’

Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio believes “Killers of the Flower Moon” is his best work yet, according to the film’s costume designer Jacqueline West.

“We had lunch before I came here. He said, ‘Jackie, I think we worked on a masterpiece.’ I thought for Leo to say that, was something. He doesn’t say that lightly,” West told Deadline. “He has been in the business since he was a little boy.”

West previously collaborated with DiCaprio on “The Revenant,” which landed the actor his first Academy Award. Yet working with director Martin Scorsese led to West contemplating retirement.

“I had the most incredible experience of my film career [on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’],” she continued. “I can’t talk about that film yet because nothing has been released but I just have to say it’s the combination of someone I always wanted to work with and my absolute dream project…It was brilliantly done not just on my part but by everybody.”

West continued, “My husband said after I worked with Scorsese, ‘OK, now you can quit. That’s the pinnacle.’”

As for the film itself, West teased, “It follows the book, and the book was totally captivating. The native cast was incredible and the acting, Lily Gladstone is incredible. The images were thrilling. It looks amazing. I watched it all being shot but I haven’t seen any of it.”