Martin Scorsese

Quit Using "Gimme Shelter" In Every Damn Movie

The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" is the movie soundtrack song that won't die. Martin Scorcese made a cliche out of it decades ago, but since then it not only hasn't gone away, it's become more prevalent in movies and TV. Sure, it's a good song, but mango popsicles are good too and we don't want o ... More >>

How Did Caravaggio Influence Movies?

A LACMA film series asks the question

From Punks to Mobsters: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special-event movies to see: Thursday, January 3 A Vincente Minnelli double feature courtesy of the Aero: The Band Wagon and Meet Me in ... More >>

Wake in Fright, the Lost Grind House Movie That Left Martin Scorsese Speechless

As director Ted Kotcheff told Senses of Cinema magazine, when Aussie grind house creeper Wake in Fright premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, "There was an American seated in one of the rows immediately behind me, and he kept saying: 'Wow! This is great!'" That American turned out to be Mar ... More >>

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Rock Hudson, Robert Bresson and all-night avant-garde

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett and Barry Lyndon

Margaret Review

The best movie of 2011, at Cinefamily

The History of Movie Magic

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Movies for dessert

Hugo Review

Martin Scorsese's film isn't pandering to the masses — it's selling them on film history

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Wild Goodness Food X Film Series: Chicken Screen Tests Scorsese Meatballs

THE HUNGER: FOOD X FILM from Levi's Film Workshop on Vimeo. Over the weekend, San Francisco art coalition Futurefarmers and artists from MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibition hosted a planting party for the new Margaret Kilgallen Memorial Farm. The party marked an unofficial opening to a seri ... More >>

Feel Like Going Home

Martin Scorsese Tells All in New Book

Author Richard Schickel talks turkey (and turkeys) with the director

Vertigo

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

10 2011 Films We're Psyched About

Terrence Malick, Tintin and a killer psychokinetic tire

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/27-10/1

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

What Made Max Mermelstein Run?

Shutter Island's Source Material on YouTube

​Martin Scorsese's visually spectacular psychological noir Shutter Island, opening in theaters tomorrow, was technically based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, but its real inspiration seems to be the thrillers of the 1940s-50s produced by Val Lewton. Lewton, best known for the original Cat People (in ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Mr. Scorsese: How to Cook Pasta in Prison

Happy birthday, Martin Scorsese. Here's the perfect YouTube birthday card, courtesy of the director himself, who turns 67 today. For anyone who loves Goodfellas, good pasta, and properly sliced garlic, here's a better cooking demo than anything you'll find on the Food Network.

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

That's Not All, Folks: PBS Tackles The Warner Bros. Story

Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight

The Town's the Thing: Theater Snobbery, From New York to L.A.

Hot Rocks

Ink aficionados; Compound Radio; punkettes prancing; Stones gather moss; pulsating party

The Voodoo Lounge: Love Songs; Shine a Light

Where Honore, Godard, Scorsese and the Stones all have a place at the table

Dispatch from the European Film Awards

Wonderful whores

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Cops and Robbers

Martin Scorsese's greatest hits

Mods & Rockers 2006

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

That Reprehensible Man and His Flying Machine

Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

Straight Outta Ipanema

Revelation versus exploitation in City of God

The Butcher and His Boy

Scorsese’s Gangs of New York

Sweet Sound of Success

An afternoon with the other Bernstein

Green Eggs and Lawsuits

Artists, contracts and money

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Remix: Utopian Vision vs. American Dream

One hundred years of architecture at the Geffen Contemporary

The Last Picture Shows

Film’s heroic age at the American Cinematheque

Who It Is

Resurrection

Scorsese updates Travis Bickle; Kimberly Peirce revives Brandon Teena

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring

Blacklist Backlash

Passion Play

Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, 25 years later