Taxi Driver: Collector’s Edition
August 15, 2007
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) captures the sense of disillusionment that people felt towards the Vietnam War, racial hatred, and dishonest politicians like Richard Nixon in the 1970’s. His film is an emblematic document of its time and...
Amazing Stories: The Complete First Season
August 1, 2006
At the height of his mid-1980s fame, Steven Spielberg parlayed his clout to convince Universal Studios to back a weekly anthology show on network television that would be called Amazing Stories (named from the pulp fiction magazine of the same name) and...
No Direction Home Bob Dylan
February 4, 2006
So much has been written about Bob Dylan. His career has been well-documented, including some truly excellent documentaries, most notably Don’t Look Back (1967) by D.A. Pennebaker. So what is there left to say? Apparently, Martin Scorsese thought otherwise...
Casino: Anniversary Edition
December 29, 2005
Casino (1995) was Martin Scorsese’s first attempt at a big budget, studio-backed epic. He would take the style and structure of GoodFellas (1990) and expand it on a much more ambitious level. Many criticized Casino as GoodFellas Part 2 but this is merely...
The Aviator
November 18, 2005
For years, Martin Scorsese has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy Awards (GoodFellas losing out to Dances with Wolves?!). He is the perennial Hollywood outsider. In recent years, the veteran filmmaker seems to become aware of this slight and, like...
The Martin Scorsese Film Collection
August 10, 2005
Martin Scorsese is one of the world’s greatest filmmakers living today. At first, this may seem like so much over-inflated hype, and to be sure, he would be the first to avoid this title, but think, for a moment, about a handful of the films this...
GoodFellas: Special Edition
December 8, 2004
“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.” – Henry Hill From his early days making Mean Streets (1973), Scorsese was always fascinated by gangsters. As a child, he had grown up around them and was intrigued by...
Michael Jackson Number Ones
May 1, 2003
He’s the King of Pop, the greatest entertainer of a generation, has the biggest selling album of all time, he was the first black artist to be shown on MTV and he single handedly revolutionised the music video. He is, quite simply, Michael Jackson. The...
My Voyage to Italy
February 20, 2003
Fans of Martin Scorsese’s documentary, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995), are in for a treat as the legendary director returns with another personal journey, this time the focus is on Italian cinema with My Voyage...
