Tag Archives: Martin Scorsese

When it comes to maverick filmmakers, very few embody a non-conformist attitude as much as Larry Cohen does. Cohen has been making movies for nearly 60 years, starting off as a screenwriter before taking up directing because other directors of ...

In 1962 François Truffaut, the newly world-renowned director and film critic, sat down with Alfred Hitchcock for an extended interview. This interview, in which the two discussed Hitchcock’s films—and cinema in general—was immortalized in Hitchcock: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock, ...

As the camera fades up, the first image audiences are met with is a woman dressed in traditional garb, gesturing for the camera. It plays out like a parody of a bad sitcom, complete with cutesy gestures and goofy interactions complete ...

When you think of the mafia or mobster subgenre, few names come immediately to mind. First, there is Howard Hawkes with his (for the time) violent Scarface (1932). More important to the genre, however, are Francis Ford Coppola and Martin ...

Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas turns 25 this year. It still is the quintessential mobster film of all time and just one of the greatest films, and that’s without hyperbole, as this comes from the man who already had “Taxi ...