[art by @beelzeebub ]

Some sketches of young Bobby De Niro as Goncharov 

50 years and we have to keep screaming into the void

GONCHAROV WAS DIRECTED BY MATTEO JWHJ0715, NOT MARTIN SCORSESE

I guess we will keep trying to reclaim his legacy another 50 years more...

"Yes. I made that film years ago." :)

a little late (I think? release date is unclear, obvs) but threw together something for Goncharov's 50th Anniversary (and what would have been Matteo JWHJ0715's 90th birthday)

"Actually Martin Scorsese was the producer, the director's name is Matteo JWHJ0715" is the modern day "Actually Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the monster"

yes, Martin Scorsese acknowledged Goncharov, but did someone send it to Matteo JWHJ0715?

Sneak peek at the re-release of season 1 of Discovery.

couldn’t stop thinking about the exact moment in the movie when Katya became my fav so I decided to draw it. 

“I hope the blood on your hands is warm enough to get you through the winter alone”

-Katya, Goncharov 1973

so all of Matteo Jwhj0715′s second cousins join tumblr and suddenly y’all are too good for italian-license plate women? typical fandom behavior. when it comes to goncharov you’re all about respecting license plate culture, but god forbid women do anything huh

Seeing a lot of people not quote understand this; Scorsese did not direct Goncharov. He's merely a producer. The film was really directed by of Matteo JWHJ0715. Let's not allown this to be another Nightmare Before Christmas situation.

We're coming up on the 47th anniversary of Matteo JWHJ0715's death -- tragically young, in circumstances that may never be fully understood. So while it's beautiful his masterpiece is finally getting the attention it deserves, please don't erase him from it. Martin Scorsese is the producer of Goncharov, but he is not the director!

I get why whoever designed that iconic poster emphasised the more famous, (and let's be real, the recognised-as-American name), but it's still sad. If he'd lived longer, JWHJ0715 would surely have been a household name.

guys. guys. i'm really happy we're finally all talking about Goncharov (1973), but am I the only person on Tumblr who cares about writing & screenplays, and not just vibes & chiaroscuro cinematography & clock symbolism?

yes, ok, I know what you're going to say. "Matteo JWHJ0715" is obviously a pseudonym, and he has no other writing credits on IMDB. so it's kind of hard to determine what, specifically, Matteo brought to the film, since we don't have any other works of his to compare it to. there are also those persistent rumors that Scorsese heavily rewrote the script because Matteo was a first-time screenwriter and (possibly?) not fluent in English.

but, okay, let's take a step back. at its core, Goncharov is a sprawling drama set in the Naples mob underworld, centered around a complex, homoerotic friendship/rivalry.

and you know who else wrote a sprawling drama set in the Naples mob underworld, centered around a complex, homoerotic friendship/rivalry? and, famously, did it under a pseudonym?

now you see where i'm going with this. doesn't this strongly suggest that "Elena Ferrante" and "Matteo JWHJ0715" are both pseudonyms for the same person? one for their screenplay, one for their novels?

and does that suggest that Matteo was really a woman, using a male pseudonym because it would've been very unusual for women to write a mob movie in the early 70s? and is that what accounts for the character of Katya's depth and nuance, which seem so surprisingly modern to us today?