Recent posts tagged Martin Scorsese
2020
Goodfellas
One of the greatest of American films generally, and certainly the most incisive and insightful one about the criminal life.
2018
The Kid In The Window Stays In The Picture
On reading Scorsese talk about Scorsese.
2017
I Just Can't Help Myself
"Good films are made, because the person behind the camera had to make them."
2014
To Go Against The Flow Dept.
Why it's good to resist the temptation to just give people what they want.
2010
Shutter Island
It’s a cliché of movie criticism to say that a given film needs to be seen more than once. Yes, Shutter Island deserves multiple viewings, but not because the final stretch reveals that everything you think you know is wrong....
2008
Amazonified Dept.
Time for some Amazon catch-up… Hideo Gosha's gone underrepresented for far too long on video in the U.S., but here and there some of the most crucial bits of his filmography have been coming out (like Sword of the Beast,...
