Wes Anderson took stop-motion animation to another level in a charming story of friendship & adventure.
Category Archive: Filmmaker of the Month
One of the Master of Suspense’s best is a darkly romantic take on patriotism & patriarchy.
We look back on the anarchic joys of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, and how it shaped the comic sensibilities of a generation.
This month, we go off the beaten path and ask contributors to write about films they’re thankful they got to experience for one reason or another.
Martin Scorsese turned his camera to the grotesque excesses of the ultra-rich in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Martin Scorsese shone a light on The Rolling Stones for this rollicking concert film, two cultural titans at the top of their game.
Martin Scorsese followed up The Departed with Shutter Island, a claustrophobic psychological thriller about the madness of loss.
Scorsese recovered from the brutal conditions of Gangs of New York with an intimate, tragic portrait of the foibles of genius.
Martin Scorsese’s hip, vibrant concert film The Last Waltz captures the ephemerality of The Band and its influence on the rock ‘n roll stage.
Martin Scorsese’s 2002 historical drama is big, brassy and full of great performances, but its runtime and tone leave it unfocused.
Martin Scorsese’s scintillating period romance is a Victorian treatise on the sufficating gulf between desire and decorum.
Martin Scorsese’s underrated gangster drama Casino depicts Sin City as a place where dreams & nightmares are one, & no heroes are to be found.
An analysis of Goodfellas’ cinema redefining single take tracking shot.
A look at Martin Scorsese’s misguided musical, and the underestimation of camp.
It’s Newman and Cruise’s picture first, but Scorsese’s work on it is still a pleasure.
Martin Scorsese’s black comedy about one hellish night offers a trapped in amber portrait of 80s New York […]
One of the inspirations behind Joker takes a funny but more chilling approach to the angry white man […]
We look back on Martin Scorsese’s 1980 boxing drama, and how Joe Pesci became one of the most pivotal players in the filmmaker’s stable.
