The movie chimed with the dark 1970s zeitgeist, but it also prefigured the 21st-century America of Maga.
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Mysterious, unwieldy and often captivating, Julian Schnabel’s film refuses easy categorisation.
Audiences are not tired of superheroes – they’re tired of stories that no longer speak to the political anxieties that made the genre powerful in the first place.
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turns 50 this month. It is widely regarded as one of the most important American films. It is also one of the most troubling.
This month, our experts are loving shows and films from Australia, Canada, the United States and Korea.
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a fascinating composite of both 1970s New Hollywood and the legacy of the women’s centred melodrama of the 1930s and 1940s.
Though only a few of Scorsese’s films focus on religious stories, deeper questions about faith, doubt and living in a violent world tend to haunt his movies.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
David Grann’s account of a sensational murder investigation, the basis for Martin Scorsese’s latest film, delves into the mythologies of the old Wild West
From Mean Streets to The Exorcist and Badlands, 1973 was a year that showcased the audacious talent in Hollywood that was experimenting with darker themes and new film techniques.
Dangerously seductive, Goodfellas is perhaps the defining work of Martin Scorsese’s career.
Despite the efforts to expand the Academy, women and people of colour are once again conspicuous by their absence this year.
Hoffa’s ghost continues to haunt the labor movement.
For decades, animators have attempted to recreate realistic human faces without entering what’s called the ‘uncanny valley.’
With big theatre chains refusing to show Martin Scorsese’s new big budget mob movie, the future of cinema is looking a little dimmer.
Martin Scorsese believes superhero movies are ‘not cinema’. What do the experts think?
The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence will be shown to an audience of priests at the Vatican today. It tells the story of persecuted Christians in 17th century Japan - an event still remembered by Nagasaki’s Catholic community.
This big budget series about the rock business failed to connect with its market.
Bruce Isaacs analyses two related but very different scenes: the famous Copacabana tracking shot from Goodfellas (1990) and the opening scene in Hugo (2011).
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