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When one describes the work of a given filmmaker, it's often easy enough to explain what movies within that filmography are going to entail. A Federico Fellini film is circus. An Ingmar Bergman film is a dour exploration of deep meaning. A Terry Gilliam film is a fantastical movie with great production design. A Stanley… Continue reading A Martin Scorsese Film
Martin Scorsese during the filming of Taxi Driver --- Image by © Steve Schapiro/Corbis 25 movies spanning the 60s to the 10s, and the man's not done yet. Martin Scorsese is one of the premiere filmmakers alive, one of the great talents who understands every aspect of the craft and how to exploit it. His… Continue reading Martin Scorsese: The Definitive Ranking
#2 in my ranking of Martin Scorsese's films. How do you follow up a movie about debauchery on Wall Street through the 90s? If you're Martin Scorsese, you make a deeply religious movie adaptation of a Japanese novel about Jesuit priests in feudal Japan, that's how. This was one of three major passion projects that… Continue reading Silence
#16 in my ranking of Martin Scorsese's films. When people think of a "Martin Scorsese movie", they usually think of movies like Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street is like Goodfellas. It's his first movie since Casino like Goodfellas. It's the story of crime and excess told purely from the perspective of the excessive… Continue reading The Wolf of Wall Street
#4 in my ranking of Martin Scorsese's films. Both completely of Scorsese's filmography and apart from it, Hugo is a masterful adaptation of the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick from one of cinema's greatest filmmakers, using all of the modern tool set to create a visually lush and dense feast for… Continue reading Hugo
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