IMAX & Aspect Ratios Guide - Google Slides posted this in the avatar thread arguing with grimace but think it's super interesting/detailed
1A. Raging Bull 1B. The King of Comedy 3. Taxi Driver 4. Goodfellas 5. The Irishman If you caught me in a different mood I might make an argument for The Irishman at number one but maybe in a few years I will be more confident in that answer.
Killers of the Flower Moon is great (he is on one of the best four-film runs of any director ever), but there is something so powerful in The Irishman in the way he is exploring his own past work, the inevitable way those films glorified crime to people who didn't really understand what they were saying, and finishes off with such a sad, final exclamation point on Mafia films.
If I'm filling in the Scorcese gaps I haven't seen, is Mean Streets a good starting point or do I go earlier
Mean Streets is the first major Scorsese film. Boxcar Bertha is bad and the first one is a student film.
i haven't seen that one but i've enjoyed both of Ethan's lesbian trilogy so far. some lesbians don't seem to be as into it, tho
the last 10 minutes of KOTFM raise it above Irishman imo. that sequence is brilliant. not sure my fav. I need to see more of his early stuff