Mr. Scorsese

Scorsese's films are what sparked my love for movies and the craft of acting and filmmaking. When I first watched Goodfellas at age 15, I was completely blown away. Then I discovered many more and was repeatedly won over every time. He doesn't go into things half-assed and he doesn't tell easy stories. That's what I always admired about them.

Like all the best filmmakers, Marty put many autobiographical elements in his movies, as well as using his work as a fix to quell his manic energy. His last two movies could go up to three to five hours long, and yet they never felt like that. Because he knows how to pull all the right punches to tell great stories with fascinating characters and settings. Isolated, cult-like worlds with complex characters. As well as themes of faith, redemption and prices to pay.

There is a reason why every actor wants to work with him, and why he's regarded as one of cinemas greatest directors.

Goodfellas is my favourite and the film i have watched the most by the greatest living Director, and this Documentary series fleshes the journey that he has gone on to make art like this beautifully. His collaborations with actors editors, screenwriters evolves with such great detail that its a film lovers paradise.

Nothing is rose tinted our backed away from including conversations about his own quite complicated personality and life and loves.

This documentary shows how this man has worked incredibly hard to create some of the best films of all time and it's laid out and edited so succinctly that the whole breadth of his story is explained to a tee.

Off to the shops tomorrow to buy the other. Scorsese films I haven't already got in my collection.

Always leave them wanting more, another 5 episodes would not have felt too much. An absorbing and gripping exploration through the work of the greatest director of them all. The last episode is aptly named Method Director, and it hadn't occurred to me in this way before, but it is exactly what he is. Beautifully documented by Rebecca Miller and interviews with just about everyone who have ever had the fortune of working with him, offering their love and gratitude. They should dedicate an entire season at the local cinema just for his movies.

My Rating : 9/10

Brilliantly directed/interviewed by Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese is an homage to one of the great living American directors. Of course, we have to talk about his asthma. Aside from that, growing up in a violent neighbourhood with his father taking him to the movies ignited the young Marty's mind toward the magical realism of the movies. The great thing about watching this documentary is that you can watch scenes from multiple great movies if you are severely time-restricted and not in the mood for a full movie-screening. Violence is explored in a personal, intimate way since Marty is known for it specifically so definitely the interviewer goads at it constantly to get to the truth of the matter, or origins perhaps. He didn't grow up with books unfortunately. His internal adolescent rebellion is seen here, his ambitiousness for a future for himself is motivational. Haig Manoogian his film professor's passion really proved a serious turning point. Also, the rebellion he had as an Hollywood outsider is indicated.

1 Recommender.

A near excellent documentary except for the odd and unfortunate omission of Hugo, a cinematic spellbinder about a little boy tasked with oiling and regulating the clocks in a Paris train station all the while eluding the police, working on his automaton, and solving the identity of the mysterious toy seller. The mysterious toy seller turns out to be the early pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès. Anyone who knows anything about Martin Scorcese, knows he is a passionate film scholar. This story from a book by Brian Selznick must have captured Mr. Scorcese's heart for two reasons, the historic film plot, and that he could make a movie his young daughter could see. Hugo is a masterpiece that did not do well at the box office, about which I make no comment about underestimating the intelligence of the public.

For the glaring omission of Hugo, I give the documentary an 8.

Martin Scorcese gets an 11.