Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese’s Encounter with Kafka
During ‘After Hours’

  June 18, 2022   'After Hours' was like an independent film. It was shorter and cheaper. I just wanted…

2 years ago

And Unto Dust We Shall Return: On Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’

  By Theo Zenou This review contains spoilers.   The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s hyped return to the gangster genre, is…

3 years ago

Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’

  By Tim Pelan   Scorsese’s Raging Bull is not your dad's boxing movie. It's certainly not a story of…

3 years ago

Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work

  By Tim Pelan   After 'The Last Temptation' was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in…

3 years ago

‘Goodfellas’: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens

Photographed by Barry Wetcher © Warner Bros.   By Tim Pelan   As far back as I can remember, director…

4 years ago

Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’

Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in…

4 years ago

‘Bringing Out the Dead’: Martin Scorsese’s Deeply Humane Unsung Gem

  By Koraljka Suton   We wanted to do New York at night in a way that would create a…

4 years ago

Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire

  By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting…

4 years ago

‘Kundun’: Martin Scorsese’s Serene Meditation on the Transient Nature of Life

  By Koraljka Suton   It is no secret that Martin Scorsese is a devoutly religious man. His life-long quest…

5 years ago