Martin Scorsese's updated list of the 15 greatest movies of all time

No problems. But Salvatore Giuliano is a new one for me.

Where is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

So, nothing great after 1968?

Eh...so subjective.

Well, he could have picked the 1963 Nutty Professor.

He's Italian American, not French.

Marty! How could you? You left out this one????? C'mon Chief

I've seen all of the films on the list except Ashes and Diamonds and The Red Shoes. Unsurprisingly, America's greatest living filmmaker has excellent taste in films.

[quote]Eh...so subjective.

Obviously. It's an opinion, and many people are interested in his.

[quote]Unsurprisingly, America's greatest living filmmaker has excellent taste in films.

You mean New York's greatest living filmmaker.

Anyone here know him in real life? What's he like? After this posted, I started thinking about his interviews, his talks with Fran Lebowitz, the lectures I've watched. Is he fun and interesting? Is he monomaniacal and on the spectrum, only talking about camera angles and jump cuts in films from the 40s?

[quote] You mean New York's greatest living filmmaker.

Nah, I meant America's greatest living filmmaker. Who's greater than Scorsese? Allen? Spielberg? Coppola? DePalma? Friedkin?

Spielberg has many classics under his belt, but I don't think he's as revered as Scorsese.

R11 I would love to know, too. I really admire his support for classic movie restoration.

Fortunately, he excluded his own movies, otherwise, he'd only have room for 1 or 2 others.

Love The River

Are all of the directors on the list dead? If so, he played it safe.

I've never understood the great love for Vertigo. But in general, I approve the rest of his list (Scorsese will be relieved).

Scorsese needs to stop making movies with Leo.

Two words...New York New York

Glad to see The Red Shoes on there

There are a couple of Japanese films on there but it is otherwise extremely US/Eurocentric. What about films from Africa and South America?

Interesting that no films from Bergman or Bunuel on the list.

I guess Scorsese listed his actual favorite films, rather than pandering, R21.

R21 representation baby. Repo baby. Idiots obsessed with representation and everyone getting a trophy for playing.

There are a few on his list that I haven't seen but I've seen most of them and of course Scorsese has beautiful taste in film, as everyone should expect.

I agree with R12, he's America's greatest living film director. There are other great directors but no one is better or even his equal. For decades now, at least since Goodfellas and maybe before that, he has had no real equal in American cinema.

So he’s seen all the movies? Wow.

Scorsese is definitely more interested in navel-gazing and film than he is curious in the diversity of human experience. Not a first for an artist or even a great director, but it is definitely disappointing given how much greatness he has given us. I enjoy them, but he can stop going back to the well for another male-centric urban crime film. He doesn’t have many films left. I hope his most moving is yet to come.

[quote] Scorsese is definitely more interested in navel-gazing and film than he is curious in the diversity of human experience.

Scorsese's curiosity and interest in 'the diversity of human experience' has always been alive and well, R27. It's right there on the screen. If you won't see it, it's because you don't want to see it. He's not disappointing in the slightest.

The Red Shoes is incredible, apparently it’s his favorite movie of all time, I have read him talk about it in so many interviews. He also regularly praises the work of Vincente Minnelli, who seems to be ignored as an artist today opposed to his less studio-friendly peers.

Male obsessives are not the diversity of humanity.

Correction-White male obsessives.

I agree that Ikiru is Kurosawa's best movie.

Correction: asexual, white male obsessives.

R30 would like to see other movies made by other directors, I'm sure you can find some, R30.

I hope you enjoy those films.

[quote] I agree that Ikiru is Kurosawa's best movie

For me, it's between Ikiru and Throne of Blood.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Fellini's "I Vitelloni", he's talked about how it had a major influenced on his work.

Scorsese is the Patti LuPone of filmdom.

I only know 4 of them. The rest are foreign to me.

I’m surprised I have only seen five. All cold, technically impressive landmarks. 8 1/2 is the only one I recognize with any real charm. I don’t know the Renoir which gives me hope.

Yes, Red Shoes amazing! Can't say what is my fav. so many, so many...

Was surprised, since he is so visual, no silent films. The Wind w. Gish, Pandora's Box, Brooks, Phantom of the Opera, Chayney

The Leopard feels so timely.

Ikiru was remade last year as the Bill Nighy film, Living.

Vertigo? Really?

[quote] Who's greater than Scorsese?

Robert Altman.

[quote] Robert Altman

That's debatable, and Altman died in 2006.

I have a problem with Vertigo. It simply shouldn't be on the list. Another Hitchcock movie, maybe.

Ikiru (Kurosawa) - you guys have my interest piqued. I've seen Seven Samurai, High and Low, Rashomon, Yojimbo, Sanjuro (I think), Ran, and Dreams.

You guys might enjoy this documentary featuring Scorsese & his parents.

I'm honestly surprised Chinatown didn't make the list, but maybe it's number 16.

Martin wanted to include Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol on the list, but decided to replace it with the Visconti film at the last minute.

He's old and so are his choices.

No, my list would be old. Marty’s list is ancient.

Marty!! You left out Sergio Leone's big comic hit: SPAGHETTI FOR SCHMEGEGGE'S

I've only seen four of these films: 2001, 8 1/2, Citizen Kane, and Vertigo, and I hated them all except 8 1/2, which is also not my favourite Fellini. That probably says more about my tastes, but 2001 bored the hell out of me, as did Citizen Kane, and I was so excited to see Vertigo and ended up finding it overwrought and disappointing. I love Hitchcock too, but the love for Vertigo does surprise me somewhat.

I've seen all 15, and most of them are on the Criterion Channel for your viewing pleasure.

It's a list reflecting the tastes of an old Italian-American Catholic man with intellectual pretensions, who came of age in the 1950s.

He could have thrown in an unpredictable choice or two. Just for shits and giggles.

I'm another who has never gotten the reverence for 2001, and I would choose Throne of Blood or Ran over Ikiru, which I find overly sentimental.

As for The Red Shoes, I prefer Black Narcissus among the Powell/Pressberger films.

He has his own canon, as established in the two long "MY JOURNEY" documentaries (American Film and Italian Film).

He really likes American film noir, and Fellini and Rossellini.

I don't care. His movies are all the same.

When I saw Scorsese in that Fran Lebowitz documentary, he seemed really sweet and affable. None of his movies interest me though, and he sure loves to focus on unpleasant people in them.