Martin Scorsese at the London Film Festival
- amat20019
- Oct 13, 2023
- 2 min read

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
Scorsese is undoubtedly a legendary director and a true friend to film history and restoration. This interview is worth 90 mins of your time!