Mar 1, 2017

My list probably looks something like this...

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. Goodfellas
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. The King of Comedy
6. The Age of Innocence
7. Silence
8. Shutter Island
9. Casino
10. Mean Streets
11. The Departed
12. The Last Temptation of Christ
13. Hugo
14. After Hours
15. The Aviator
16. Bringing Out the Dead
17. Gangs of New York
18. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
19. New York, New York
20. Kundun
21. Who's That Knocking on My Door?
22. The Color of Money
23. Cape Fear
24. Boxcar Bertha

Also worth reposting is ReverseShot's Scorsese symposium from a few years back: http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/33/martin-scorsese-he-is-cinema

This thread also reminds me that I need to check out the Scorsese exhibit at the Museum of Moving Image before it closes in April.

Lastly, apropos of nothing, here is a picture of Scorsese in an inflatable donut...

 

Mar 3, 2017

@Koolo where are we at on adding that dislike button

 

Feb 28, 2017

Goodfellas below Silence is an act of aggression

 

Mar 4, 2017

I have to say I probably lean more towards @Papa Andy on The Aviator. With its sanitized portrait of Howard Hughes, it always struck me as one of Scorsese's most conventional films, even if it works relatively well within those conventions. I wouldn't go as far as to call it impersonal, as Scorsese is clearly enamored with old Hollywood and it's evident in the loving detail with which it's rendered.

Speaking of a filmmaker's invested interest in his material, I think The Departed may be even less personal for Scorsese than The Aviator, but it's so sharp and finely tuned that it's easily among his most purely entertaining works.

Since it's his lowest rated feature on RottenTomatoes (I think), I most certainly go to bat for Shutter Island as one of his most underrated. I rewatched it recently and it more than held up. That initial sequence when they first meet Max Von Sydow and it flashes back to the scene of the Nazi's failed suicide gives me chills. Little touches like the papers fluttering in the air in sync with Mahler's cascading melodies have always stuck with me.

 

Mar 3, 2017

nah Scorsese's most iconic moment is the way he showed a rat at the end of The Departed. On account of some of the characters in the movie..................being kind of like a rat. Idk if you guys picked up on that or not

 

Feb 28, 2017

1.) Taxi Driver
2.) Raging Bull
3.) The Aviator
4.) Goodfellas
5.) The Wolf of Wall Street
6.) Shutter Island
7.) The Departed
8.) Silence
9.) Casino
10.) The King of Comedy
11.) After Hours
12.) Mean Streets
13.) Gangs of New York
14.) The Color of Money
15.) Cape Fear

Need re-watches of Bull/Departed/Shutter. Top 12 all at least four stars as it stands.

 

Feb 28, 2017

i've probably seen about 10 or 11 of his films. enjoyed most of them and i need to watch the ones i haven't seen yet.

as of now, my favorite film of his would be raging bull.

my favorite scene is in taxi driver when he appears in the back of the bickle's cab. he does a fantastic acting job. he's very convincing and that scene its incredible!