Time Changes Nothing

A film journey through a half-century of friendship in The Irishman.

Director Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro on the set of The Irishman. Photo of the poster by the author.

“Time Changes Nothing.” These words were tattooed across grainy black-and-white photos of Martin Scorsese, the film director, and the actor Robert DeNiro to promote his new movie The Irishman.

The phase can seem absurd if applied to the aging actors who, like the rest of us, have changed in the course of a lifetime — once taut, shiny…