I happened to watch the movie `Alice doesn’t live here anymore’ and was moved by both the performance of Ellen Burstyn and direction of Martin Scorsese. It is one of the earlier films of Scorsese, but his talent is quite evident. I had seen and enjoyed his `Mean Streets’, also made in the seventies.
The point I’m trying to make is that though he hit the big league with the classic `Taxi Driver’, the seeds of great things to come were sown years before. I’ve enjoyed most of the movies of Scorsese and continue to enjoy them. He is certainly one of my favourite post-war directors.
Just look at the bewildering variety of movies he has made over the years and it is hard not to like his movies. I’ve missed some of them like New York New York, The Last Waltz, King of Comedy, After Hours, Kundun and Age of Innocence. I’m still searching for the DVDs of these movies.
Take your pick from the list: Raging Bull, The Colour of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed and now the Shutter Island ( I’m waiting to see the last one). If Robert DeNiro was his favourite actor earlier, now it seems to be Leonardo DeCaprio.
My wish is that he should go on making films till his death for directors of his kind don’t come often.
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