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Apr 20, 2024 · Laraine’s privacy and absence from social media underscore her preference for a secluded life. Laraine Marie Brennan gained prominence as the former spouse of respected filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Laraine married Martin on May 15, 1965, after meeting him during their college days.
Aug 15, 2023 · By Sophie McEvoy / Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 10:36 am EST. Before eventually settling down with Helen Morris in 1999, Martin Scorsese started married life with his university sweetheart, Laraine Marie Brennan (via the Independent ). Prior to becoming the influential film director he has become, Scorsese studied at New York University's School of ...
Oct 20, 2023 · Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best. From The King of Comedy to Killers of the Flower Moon — we break down the greatest living filmmaker’s career from bottom to...
- David Fear
- 27 'Boxcar Bertha'
- 26 'New York Stories'
- 25 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'
- 24 'New York, New York'
- 23 'Kundun'
- 22 'Shutter Island'
- 21 'The Color of Money'
- 20 'Cape Fear'
- 19 'The Aviator'
- 18 'Hugo'
Starring Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Barry Primus
When ranking the films of Martin Scorsese, one has to be at the bottom, and Boxcar Bertha serves as the sacrificial lamb here, so to speak. It's a low-budget mash-up of the crime and romance genres, set in the 1930s and following a woman, Boxcar Bertha (Barbara Hershey), and a member of a union, Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), teaming up to take down a corrupt railroad organization. They fall in love along the way but also face several violent encounters. It's a scrappy and gritty film, po...
Starring Woody Allen, Rosanna Arquette, and Mia Farrow
New York Stories is an interesting outlier of sorts in Scorsese's filmography because he wasn't the only director. It's an anthology film made up of three short stories belonging to the dramedy/romance genres (all of them taking place in - you guessed it - New York), with Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allendirecting the other two segments. The film as a whole is really brought down by Coppola's contribution, which is well below his usual standards. Allen's and Scorsese's segments are decent,...
Starring Harvey Keitel and Zina Bethune
For a feature film debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door certainly isn't bad. It's also notable for being the first collaboration between Scorsese and Harvey Keitel, who would go on to star in several more Scorsese features, including most recently in 2019's The Irishman. Despite being released before Boxcar Bertha, it feels more in line with Scorsese's later films that would better define his style. The plot here is simple, following a Catholic Italian-American young man, J.R. (Keitel), who...
Starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro
By 1977, Scorsese and Robert De Niro had already done two successful collaborations together, with both being well suited to the crime genre they'd been exploring. But it was 1977 that saw them trying to shake things up, because that was the year they did a musical (of sorts) together: New York, New York. To anyone who's seen La La Land, it's basically the same premise, only not as comedic and also not quite as satisfying or direct. It's centered on jazz saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (De Niro) and...
Starring Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, and Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
Martin Scorsese may have a reputation for being a gangster movie director, but he's broken away from the genre on multiple occasions. Few films represent as drastic a change of pace as 1997's Kundun, which focuses on the life story of the 14th Dalai Lama, particularly centering on his life as a child and then a young adult. The film stars Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong as the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet, and he also happens to be a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama. Telling the events...
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley
Scorsese's take on a psychological thriller with Shutter Island makes for a good watch, though it ultimately isn't among his very best works. The less said about the plot the better, but the central premise involves a detective, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), investigating a patient's disappearance from a high-security psychiatric facility. He's joined by his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) who helps him navigate the titular island. The protagonist's dark histo...
Starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Mary Elizabeth
The Color of Money stands out for being a Martin Scorsese-directed sequel, and a sequel to a movie he didn't direct, to boot. It's a follow-up to 1961's The Hustler, centering on Paul Newman's character, Fast Eddie, taking on a young pupil of sorts, here played by Tom Cruise. Eddie identifies Vincent's (Cruise) talent immediately one night and invites him to go on a road trip where they hit up different games and learn "the art of hustling." As far as distant sequels go, it's surprisingly goo...
Starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, and Jessica Lange
Five years after directing a sequel with The Color of Money, Scorsese made a remake: Cape Fear (1991). He goes for broke, with Cape Fear being a wildand unpredictable horror/thriller movie that keeps the tension high all throughout its 128-minute runtime. Scorsese also directs Robert De Niro in one of the most menacing and over-the-top performances of his career. It centers on De Niro's character, Max Cady, a recently released prisoner, targeting and tormenting a lawyer who let him down 14 ye...
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and Kate Beckinsale
Martin Scorsese's favorite lead actor throughout the 20th century was Robert De Niro, but in the 21st century, it's arguably been Leonardo DiCaprio. The Aviator is one of their numerous successful collaborations, with the film being a biopic of Howard Hughes, who was a film producer, pilot, and philanthropist. Based on Hughes' 1993 non-fiction book The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the protagonist's experiences from 1927 to 1947, which includes his meteoric rise, which is so...
Starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Asa Butterfield
Hugois the rare Scorsese movie that could be classified as a family film... though it helps if viewers have an interest in the history of silent cinema, because that's what the film is largely about. It centers on the titular character – 12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) – who lives alone in Paris' Gare Montparnasse railway station. He soon befriends Georges Méliès (played by Ben Kingsley), a pioneering director in cinema's early days. The film is at its best when looking at the power...
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
3 days ago · It's Martin Scorsese's best movies (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed) along with a few of his worst (we guess New York, New York is considered bad), all ranked by the...
May 22, 2023 · Ranking All 26 Martin Scorsese Movies: From ‘Who’s That Knocking at My Door’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. By Clayton Davis. Everett Collection. “There’s no such thing as...
Nov 17, 2023 · Martin Scorsese's iconic filmography includes movies like Casino, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver. Here are all of his movies ranked and where to watch them.
