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Look! Martin Scorsese is my friend!
No, really, it’s not an April Fool’s joke - the greatest of all working film directors is my friend - on MySpace, that is.
OK, so it’s not as glamorous as the headline might make it seem, but I still think it’s very cool that Scorsese has this site, timed to promote his Rolling Stones IMAX concert film, Shine a Light, which I will review shortly.
One of the reasons Scorsese is my favorite director is the way he eats, sleeps, lives and breathes movies and brings so many influences to his own pictures. He even makes cool commercials, as in this spot, where he brilliantly channels Hitchcock, who happens to be my favorite director who is no longer living.
What’s your favorite Scorsese movie? I vote for Raging Bull. If he isn’t your favorite director, who is?
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By alex
April 2, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this
I think Scorsese is certainly a very great director, but my favorites would be George Stevens (A Place In The Sun, Giant, Shane) and John Ford (The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) as well as Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Strangers On A Train, Shadow Of A Doubt). Just absolutely brilliant storytellers.By SRCputt
April 1, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this
I think Scorsese’s best film is Goodfellas. It is the best job anyone’s ever done of making you feel a part of the mob. But my favorite director is Spielberg — another guy who lives and breathes movies.