Martin Scorsese at the London Film Festival

One of the highlights of this year’s LFF has been an interview of legendary director Martin Scorsese by fellow filmmaker Edgar Wright.

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.

The interview can be seen in full here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4ULfDDySU

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