Something Old, Something New: The Last Temptation of Christ / Lincoln

I knew I'd forgotten to link to something this week. Last Monday, my second Something Old, Something New piece went up, this time on the...

The Top 10 Martin Scorsese Films

With Martin Scorsese celebrating his 70th birthday today, what better time than to count down 10 of the greatest achievements of one of Amer...

Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)

For the six people out there who still love 3D, Hugo  will be the film of the year. To be sure, no other film from any year is so well-suite...

GoodFellas

If the Godfather films used organized crime as a personification of the corruption of the American society and dream, Martin Scorsese's...

Bringing Out the Dead

In preparation for the upcoming Martin Scorsese Blog-a-Thong for the Large Association of Movie Blogs, the following is a re-write of the fi...

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is the epic, self-destructive companion piece to Who Shot Liberty Valance . It posits that one need not have traveled out...

Shutter Island

I noticed when I signed into my Blogger account to write this a whopping five posts in a row discussing Martin Scorsese's much-belated B...

Raging Bull

Raging Bull is one of the great character studies of the cinema. I have seen it derided as an inaccurate depiction of boxing technique by t...

Taxi Driver

Though I've traveled abroad several times, I've only ever been to New York City once, and only for a three day high school band trip...

The Departed

Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a curious case: in the director's repertoire of masterpieces, classics and just plain good movies...