I kind of want to see it again but I have so many others to fit in this month that I probably shouldn’t.
I tried watching all of his stuff when Wolf of Wall Street came out but I still have more than a handful I need to see. This thread is a good reminder.
Watched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore for the first time last night. It was really good. Don't know why I avoided it for so long.
Who's That Knocking At My Door? is definitely a student film. I thought it was a lot better when I saw it years ago.
Boxcar Bertha was a bore. It is interesting the ways in which directors evolve in today's climate versus previous decades. People like Coppola, Spielberg, Kubrick, and Scorsese had to take jobs for hire for quite a while to get the amount of clout that would give them the independence to make the films that they are so memorable for. They are often not very interesting and mostly skippable unless you are trying to see their roots. By contrast, people like Tarantino, Soderbergh, Wes and Paul Thomas Anderson, and Sofia Coppola were able to start right away making important work. It is indicative of the independent film route, which didn't exist in the same way in the Sixties and Seventies. A lot of these new directors made their best or most acclaimed films by film two or three.
first-timed on goodfellas on the big screen. i don't have any interesting opinion here, that was spectacular. though it might be weird that i've seen irishman first
watched gony last night and i definitely hope there are no worse films in the marty cinematic universe
Boxcar Bertha is probably his worst movie, but that was a situation where he was a hired hand trying to make a name for himself.
Funnily enough I just watched The Color of Money last night and was thinking of this thread. You’d have to go back to his super early hired gun days to find a movie that feels less specific to him. By itself it’s adequate, but knowing he directed it always takes it down quite a bit. It could have been so much more interesting if they didn’t feel the need to bring in a hot young star and just let the movie be about Fast Eddie.
i love the main three performances and the dialogue is among some of his best imo. the cinematography from ballhaus is great. the soundtrack also rules lol. i get not liking it bc it feels like not a true scorsese work since he’s working within the confines of a sequel, but i love it
That makes sense. I also can’t stand Tom Cruise, so it’s not surprising that something he’s in would be pretty low on my list. Paul was great though. It’s too bad they couldn’t make it work to have Jackie Gleason return.
oh, i mean, he sucks haha. but it is one of his better performances. and fantastic late-period newman
1. Raging Bull 2. Goodfellas 3. The King of Comedy 4. Taxi Driver 5. The Irishman 6. The Wolf of Wall Street 7. Silence 8. The Last Temptation of Christ 9. Mean Streets 10. After Hours 11. Who's That Knocking At My Door? 12. The Departed 13. The Age of Innocence 14. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 15. Casino 16. Bringing Out the Dead 17. Cape Fear 18. New York, New York 19. Gangs of New York 20. The Color of Money 21. Hugo 22. The Aviator 23. New York, New York 24. Shutter Island 25. Boxcar Bertha I regretted making this list about halfway through. A lot of the lower films I only saw once and it was long before I had the amount of film knowledge I had now. When I was doing my Scorsese rewatch a few months ago I saw the runtime of New York, New York and gave up.
Surprised to see Casino so low. I'd probably move up that, The Departed and After Hours; and maybe move King of Comedy down below WOWS. Otherwise, I mostly agree with that list, though I still need to see about half a dozen or more of those.
I'm running through his filmography completely for the first time right now. First-time watches: Boxcar Bertha, New York New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, Silence On NY, NY right now. The fact that Minnelli didn't even get nominated for this is fucking insane.