The legendary director behind classics such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street talks to fellow filmmaker Edgar Wright about his career.

It is impossible to talk about cinema over the last 50 years without mentioning Martin Scorsese. The world of film preservation is no less indebted to him, for his championing the medium’s rich and storied past.

As he unveils his latest opus, the epic historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon, the director explores a body of work that is as daring as it is beautiful, and ground-breaking as it is thrilling. From Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence and The Irishman, Martin Scorsese has investigated masculinity, honour, the tenets of faith and the forces that shape the world around us. He has done so with a virtuosity that is rarely short of breathtaking.

00:00: Ben Roberts, CEO of BFI, intro
02:11: Edgar Wright introduces Martin Scorsese
03:58: Philosophy of cinema. Other filmmaker's work. "More a teacher than a filmmaker"
06:24: Asthma and feeling safe in the cinema
11:14: The New York Underground
12:40: Early attempts at storyboarding and Marty's unmade Roman epic
15:03: How Mean Streets got made
31:32: Where the characters in Mean Streets came from
40:28: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and working in Hollywood
41:43: Taxi Driver
50:24: Thelma Schoonmaker, editing and Taxi Driver's X rating
58:32: The King of Comedy
01:05:23: Goodfellas and how Scorsese feels about homages
01:09:30: Robert De Niro introducing him to Leonardo DiCaprio
01:12:17: The Aviator
01:16:23: The Wolf of Wall Street
01:19:06: Trumpism
01:19:38: Killers of the Flower Moon

Films Martin Scorsese mentions during this interview include:

Magnificent Obsession. Dir: Douglas Sirk

A Place in the Sun. Dir: George Stevens

The Heiress. Dir: William Wyler

The Bad and the Beautiful. Dir: Vincente Minnelli

Sunset Boulevard. Dir: Billy Wilder

Bomba: the Jungle Boy
. Dir: Ford Beebe

“Great White Hunter”. Dir: Unknown

The Macomber Affair. Dir: Zoltan Korda

The Big Heat. Dir: Fritz Lang

Murder by Contract. Dir: Irving Lerner

Shane. Dir: George Stevens

Pather Panchali. Dir: Satyajit Ray

The River. Dir: Jean Renoir

Wavelength. Dir: Michael Snow

Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione). Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci

Fists in the Pocket. Dir: Marco Bellocchio

Accattone. Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Road to Singapore. Dir: Victor Schertzinger

Rocco and his Brothers. Dir: Luchino Visconti

Red River. Dir: Howard Hawks

The Brothers Karamazov. Dir: Richard Brooks

Faces. Dir: John Cassavetes

Midnight Cowboy. Dir: John Schlesinger

The FBI Story. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy

The Wild Bunch. Dir: Sam Peckinpah

Two Rode Together. Dir: John Ford

Shadows. Dir: John Cassavetes

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