JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — They come into the room not like the moveable Mount Rushmore that they are but like three old friends, energized by being in each other's company. They are chatting about movies.
Martin Scorsese comes first, then Al Pacino, then Robert De Niro. They're trailed by a small army of publicists and assistants that quickly recedes out of the room. Constant through the momentary commotion is Scorsese enthusiastically remembering Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "A Matter of Life and Death," and quoting its lines to a rapt Pacino.
Their movie, "The Irishman," also deals majestically with matters of life and death. Like Powell and Pressburger's time-traversing afterlife fantasy, "The Irishman" takes the long view on a life, albeit one — that