https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-007_w-1-32x32.jpg https://cinephiliabeyond.org 32 32 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:54:01 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=32914 Taxi Driver poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/   Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in […]

The post Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-menace-the-american-pathology-of-martin-scorseses-taxi-driver/feed/ 3 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:59:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39761   By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting […]

The post Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:57:47 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=38059   By Tim Pelan   After ‘The Last Temptation‘ was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in […]

The post Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-color-of-money/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:28:39 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47485   By Koraljka Suton   ‘After Hours’ was like an independent film. It was shorter and cheaper. I just wanted […]

The post ‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-last-temptation-of-christ/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-last-temptation-of-christ/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:18:48 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=38438   By Koraljka Suton   Ever since he was a little boy, director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie […]

The post ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ As a Testament to and an Exploration of Scorsese’s Own Faith appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-last-temptation-of-christ/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/kundun/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/kundun/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:46:10 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39036   By Koraljka Suton   It is no secret that Martin Scorsese is a devoutly religious man. His life-long quest […]

The post ‘Kundun’: Martin Scorsese’s Serene Meditation on the Transient Nature of Life appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/kundun/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-cinematic-legacy-of-donald-e-westlake/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-cinematic-legacy-of-donald-e-westlake/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:57:25 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=52842   June 12, 2024   By Koraljka Suton   I subscribe basically to the theory that a movie is not […]

The post The Cinematic Legacy of Donald E. Westlake appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-cinematic-legacy-of-donald-e-westlake/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-age-of-innocence/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-age-of-innocence/#respond Tue, 31 May 2022 23:25:57 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=47032   May 31, 2022   By Koraljka Suton   When asked back in 1993 what the most violent movie he […]

The post Scorsese’s Sexless Period Drama ‘The Age of Innocence’ as a Visceral Depiction of Emotional Starvation and Internalized Violence appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-age-of-innocence/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-irishman/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-irishman/#respond Tue, 24 Nov 2020 02:41:33 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=40182   By Theo Zenou This review contains spoilers.   The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s hyped return to the gangster genre, is […]

The post And Unto Dust We Shall Return: On Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-irishman/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/raging-bull/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/raging-bull/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:13:07 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=35333   By Tim Pelan   Scorsese’s Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of […]

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