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Martin Scorsese is best known for his work as a filmmaker and his cameo appearances in his own movies, but he has also appeared in movies outside his own work, and here’s every one of those roles. Like most filmmakers, Martin Scorsese’s career started with short films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in 1967, he made his feature-length film debut with Who’s That Knocking at My Door, which was also the first time he worked with frequent collaborators Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.

Martin Scorsese continued to explore different genres in his movies but found the most success in the crime and gangster genres, with movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and The Departed, which have also established his trademark narrative and visual styles, characterized by the use of freeze frames, profanity, and graphic depictions of violence. Scorsese’s works have also become known for including cameos by himself,...

George Gershwin surmised “Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise.” In keeping with the spirit of this given, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight succeeds as a composite of jazz and its tormented originators thanks to the inspired casting and improvisational skills of real-life bebop musician Dexter Gordon, who was nominated for an Academy Award as Dale Turner, an amalgamation of Black expats and jazz legends who fled to Europe during the mid twentieth century.

A smoothly attenuated film which plays like elevated fan fiction from an outsider’s perspective, it’s a de-romanticized portrait of the jazz musician, artists whose contributions to their craft were exploited, but their well-beings disregarded during their professional tenure and eventual legacies erased or tarnished.…...