Scorsese Toasts Masters

This past Saturday afternoon, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s estimable co-programmer Kent Jones hosted the latest installment of “The Next Generation of Film,” an ongoing series of onstage conversations conducted with contemporary filmmakers. This most recent edition might better have been described as “Two Previous Generations of Film,” as the movies discussed were made by William Perlberg and George Seaton, a Hollywood producer and director team whose collaboration peaked in the late 1950s. On hand to contextualize and unpack Perlberg and Seaton’s mostly uncelebrated movie legacy was film history’s devout latter-day saint, director Martin Scorsese.