Scorsese 2 days in a row

[The Burgomaster]

I got the "Martin Scorsese" bug again this weekend and I ended up watching 2 of his classic movies for about the 15th or 20th time each.

Yesterday:  TAXI DRIVER - I can't get enough of this movie.  Scorsese has had a brilliant career, but this might be his masterpiece.  I love the fact that it was filmed in New York, but we don't see the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty or Radio City Music Hall.  Instead, we see seedy bars, rundown apartment buildings, porno theaters, filthy alleys, late-night coffee shops, hookers, drug addicts, pimps, and pushers.  One of the grittiest, most unsettling movies I have ever seen.  Mesmerizing.

Today:  MEAN STREETS - Another one that I can watch over and over again.  The atmosphere is much the same as TAXI DRIVER: gritty and dangerous.  And the cast is perfect.  There are only a few brief scenes of graphic violence, but the movie FEELS violent from beginning to end.  Brilliant.

[Kory]

I just (finally) saw "Taxi Driver" last night.  It was indeed unsettling, but a phenomenal movie.  DeNiro was brilliant, along with everyone else, and Jodie Foster was a hell of an actress at the age of 13!  

*****SPOILER***** In case anyone other than me hadn't seen the movie.

I wonder something with the ending:  Did he really recover from his wounds and arise as a hero?  Maybe, as he lay dying, he was imagining the letter from Iris' parents and the newspaper articles.

[Scott]

TAXI DRIVER is a great film. Not sure if I've seen MEAN STREETS.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I've unfortunatly never seen Mean Streets.

Taxi Driver is amazing, but I feel that Scorsese's crowning achievement has got to be Goodfellas.  I do believe that I have seen Goodfellas more times than any other film in my collection.  Pure magic in that film.

[Chopper]

love 'em both too. Mean Streets has got to have one of the best intros of any movie. the home movies playing to the oldies song. so Scorsese, so perfect.

[dean]

I am currently having the pleasure of doing a course at university title: the cinema of Martin Scorsese.

We watch his films and films that influenced him, and basically take apart his movies and find the meaning behind them and whatnot.

The main opinion on Kory's question on Taxi Driver seems to be that the ending wasn't real, although I personally think that it is possible.

The same problem also happens in King of Comedy as well [dream ending possibility]

Despite this, I still have yet to see many Scorsese films, but I'm sure that by the end of this course I will be well versed in all things Scorsese.

[Ozzymandias]

Can you get the TCM documentary narrated by Scorseseon DVD? It aired a few months back and I loved it. He starts in the silent era and goes up to the early 60s.