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Cape Fear (1991) | Transcript
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
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The Irishman (2019) – Transcript
An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s.
Taxi Driver (1976) – Review by Charles Michener [Film Comment]
By far his most ambitious film to date technically and in the scope of its references, Taxi Driver shows Scorsese's urgency working at…
New York Stories (1989): Two-Base Hit – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews 'New York Stories', the 1989 anthology film consisting of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. Episodes…
Goodfellas: Interview with Martin Scorsese (1990) – By Gavin Smith
by Gavin Smith Gavin Smith: What was it that drew you to the GoodFellas material? Martin Scorsese: I read a review of the…
Imagism and Martin Scorsese: Images Suspended and Extended – By George P. Castellitto
Scorsese's technique of "freezing” objects generates a particular method of cinematic exposition in which characters and objects are portrayed in a moment between…
Taxi Driver (1976) – Review by Michael Dempsey [Film Quarterly]
In Taxi Driver, New York City is a steaming, polluted cesspool and Travis Bickle’s cab a drifting bathysphere from which he can peer…
Mean Streets: Everyday Inferno – Review by Pauline Kael
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets is a true original of our period, a triumph of personal filmmaking. It has its own hallucinatory look; the…
Cape Fear (1962, 1991): The Shadow Within – By Jenny Diski [Sight and Sound]
Novelist of ‘Nothing Natural’, Jenny Diski, watches a video of the first ‘Cape Fear’ and the Scorsese remake - and compares them
Cape Fear (1991) – Review by Terrence Rafferty [the New Yorker]
The movie is a disgrace: an ugly, incoherent, dishonest piece of work. The original picture, directed by a skillful journeyman, J. Lee Thompson,…
Scorsese’s Cape Fear: Sacred and Profane – Review by J. Hoberman [Sight and Sound]
J. Hoberman's review of "Cape Fear" (1991) by Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas (1990) | Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael's review praises "GoodFellas" for its vivid filmmaking but criticizes its shallow characters and lack of depth, celebrating style over substantial narrative.
Raging Bull: Interview with Martin Scorsese (1981) by Michael Henry
This interview took place in Paris during the night of February 11-12, 1981. A translation of “Nuit blanche et chambre noire” from Positif,…
Taxi Driver (1976) | Review by Pauline Kael
No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it’s horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying.
Martin Scorsese: He Has Often Walked ‘Mean Streets’
Martin Scorsese interview with Guy Flatley for 'The New York Times', December 1973
Silence | Recensioni
Nel XVII secolo due giovani missionari portoghesi, padre Rodrigues e padre Garupe, vanno in Giappone alla ricerca del loro mentore padre Ferreira, di…
Raging Bull (1980) – Review by Pauline Kael
Religious Pulp, or the Incredible Hulk by Pauline Kael As Jake la Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ, in Raging Bull, Robert De…
Casino: Martin Scorsese’s Testament
What has drawn Scorsese to mix a mafia story with a Biblical epic? The director explains
Scorsese’s Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters – By Timothy J. Gilfoyle
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle In December 2002, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York opened to critical acclaim. The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Wilmington described…
Fuori Orario (1986) | Recensione di Franco La Polla
«Cambiano le regole. Quando si fanno le ore piccole è zona franca», dice il simpatico barista a Marcy e Paul, offrendo loro la…
Martin Scorsese: Playboy Interview (1991)
Martin Scorsese interviewed by David Rensin for Playboy magazine, April 1991
The Age of Innocence: Dread and Desire
Aching desire and repression and guilt collide in Scorsese’s version of Edith Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence'
Gangs of New York: America of Scorsese
Gangs of New York (2002) di M. Scorsese. Contributi critici di F. La Polla, F. Cattaneo, E. Morreale, A.G. Mancino e A. Piccardi.…
Martin Scorsese: Gangster and Priest
Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana and Afterword by Raffaele Caputo. From CINEMA Papers, December 1990
Paul Schrader on Taxi Driver
In this extract from Schrader on Schrader, a collection of interviews and essays, screenwriter Paul Schrader tells Kevin Jackson about the genesis of…