When a director’s vision is extremely singular, it can seem something of a spoiler when they start talking influence. Maybe, we fear, the vision will seem less singular if we see how it’s foreshadowed in older films. On the other hand, the work of the strongest directors should be able to stand up to the […]
Author: Ciaran Lawless
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10 Great German Films Recommended by Martin Scorsese
We’ve talked you through the French and Italian movies from Martin Scorsese’s list of 39 movies that every young filmmaker should watch. Now for the Germans. In many ways, this is a list that can be split into two distinct parts. Scorsese’s choices all come from either the Expressionist era (the main proponents being Fritz […]
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11 Great French Films Recommended by Martin Scorsese
The influence of French cinema on Scorsese’s work is fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the key works of the French New Wave. Scorsese’s early works, such as Mean Streets, clearly tapped the often anarchic energy that directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol brought to the world of cinema in the early […]
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11 Great Italian Films Recommended by Martin Scorsese
Some years ago, young filmmaker Colin Levy had the enviable opportunity to meet Martin Scorsese. The meeting itself isn’t as important (at least not to cinephiles) as what happened afterwards. Three weeks after the meeting, Scorsese had a list sent to Levy. On the list were 39 foreign films that Scorsese thought every young filmmaker […]