Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jun 14, 2002Urban Psychosis
Possibly the best film made by Martin Scorsese. A disturbing vision of urban psychosis set in a morally festering New York City where the psycho, Robert De Niro’s title character who spills over with pent-up violence, actually becomes the hero of the show
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New York Stories (1989)

New York Stories (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 28, 2004Anthology of New York Tales/Giant Nagging Mother
Anthology where directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen each contribute an episode set in New York. Allen's contribution in which a magician's trick manifests a giant nagging mother in the sky is side-splitting
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Cape Fear (1991)

Cape Fear (1991)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 5, 2000Ex-Con's Revenge Thriller
Martin Scorsese remakes the classic thriller with Robert De Niro playing the ex-con seeking revenge against his lawyer. Scorsese makes the morality more ambiguous and bring out tensions within the family, although the original works more starkly
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 25, 1999Urban Hell/Haunted Ambulance Driver
Martin Scorsese returns to the vision of urban hell he gave us in Taxi Driver with Nicolas Cage as an ambulance driver haunted the dead he sees. Powerful, blackly funny at times, if not quite up there as another Taxi Driver
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 25, 2019Horror Producer Val Lewton Documentary
Val Lewton produced a body of works beginning with Cat People that are the finest horror films of the 1940s. This is a documentary that looks at Lewton's life and films in detail, produced and narrated by no less than Martin Scorsese
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Hugo (2011)

Hugo (2011)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 15, 2011Children's Film/Georges Melies Tribute
Martin Scorsese’s venture into making a children’s film is a beautiful production but must have been a studio nightmare – while they try to sell it as a magical fantasy film, Scorsese wants to pay tribute to silent filmmaker Georges Melies
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