Martin Scorsese
American film director of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Killers of the Flower Moon; founder of The Film Foundation and a lifelong advocate for film preservation.
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Loved The Leopard
I could go on and on about The Leopard. It’s a film that has become more and more important to me as the years have gone by.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved Contempt
And for me, Contempt is one of the most moving films of its era.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved 8½
8½ has always been a touchstone for me, in so many ways—the freedom, the sense of invention, the underlying rigor and the deep core of longing, the bewitching, physical pull of the camera movements and the compositions (another great black-and-white film: every image gleams like a pearl—again, shot by Gianni Di Venanzo).
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
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Loved Salvatore Giuliano
And Salvatore Giuliano is, among many other things, a grand hymn to Sicily, the land of my family, and for that reason alone I cherish it.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved L’avventura
I realize that L’avventura is supposed to be about characters who are “alienated” from their surroundings, but that word has been used so often to describe this film and Antonioni’s films in general that it more or less shuts down thought. In fact, I see it, more than ever, as a movie about people in spiritual distress: their spiritual signals are disrupted, which is why they see the world around them as hostile and unforgiving. Visually, sensually, thematically, dramatically, in every way, it’s one of the great works of cinema.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved Ashes and Diamonds
I saw Ashes and Diamonds for the first time in 1961. And even back then, during that period when we expected to be astonished at the movies, when things were happening all over the world, it shocked me.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved Ugetsu
I love all three of these pictures and many other Mizoguchi films as well (including Princess Yang Kwei-fei, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, and Miss Oyu, to name only a few), but Ugetsu has the most powerful effect on me.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
Loved The Red Shoes
What is it that’s so special about The Red Shoes? Of course, it’s beautiful, one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made; it has such an extraordinary sense of magic—look again at the scene where Moira Shearer is walking up the steps to Anton Walbrook’s villa, especially in the new restoration: it seems like she’s floating on currents of sparkling light and air.
criterion.com 29 Jan 2014
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