Bleeding lungs and raging bulls: The movie pitch that saved Martin Scorsese’s life in 1978
A near miss.
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Who was the real gangster who inspired Martin Scorsese movie ‘Casino’?
Turns out, people really into gambling are often shifty. Who knew?
Public Image Ltd met with Martin Scorsese about doing the ‘Raging Bull’ soundtrack
Public Image Ltd live at the Palladium, NYC, April 20, 1980 (photo by Rob Pistella via Fodderstompf) I confess that I haven’t yet read Jah…
That time the Clash appeared in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’
An interesting cinematic footnote to the Clash’s time spent in New York City in the early 1980s–while they recorded their sprawling three-record Sandinista album–is their…
Martin Scorsese Directs
Martin Scorsese started making movies when he was a kid. He suffered from asthma which meant he spent time a lot of isolated at home…
Saul Bass: Great cinema title sequences from Otto Preminger to Martin Scorsese
Over five decades Saul Bass designed opening title sequences that were sometimes better than the movies they introduced. His ambition he once said was to…
Behind the scenes of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’
I saw Mean Streets in my teens on late night TV after the parents had gone to bed and I’d stolen a couple of my…
Watch Martin Scorsese’s bloody 1967 anti-Vietnam War short, ‘The Big Shave’
Prepare yourself for a little bit of gore, but make sure you don’t miss this one. Clocking in at under six minutes long, Martin Scorsese’s…
‘The Scorsese Machine’: Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker at the editing bay
In 1991 French filmmaker and sometime actor André Labarthe released The Scorsese Machine, a cinema verité documentary featuring oodles of interesting footage of Scorsese living…