Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright | BFI London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk

The legendary director behind classics such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street talks to fellow filmmaker Edgar Wright about his career. 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. 00:00: Ben Roberts, CEO of BFI, intro 02:11: Edgar Wright introduces Martin Scorsese 03:58: Philosophy of cinema. Other filmmaker’s work. “More a teacher than a filmmaker“ 06:24: Asthma and feeling safe in the cinema 11:14: The New York Underground 12:40: Early attempts at storyboarding and Marty’s unmade Roman epic 15:03: How Mean Streets got made 31:32: Where the characters in Mean Streets came from 40:28: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and working in Hollywood 41:43: Taxi Driver 50:24: Thelma Schoonmaker, editing and Taxi Driver’s X rating 58:32: The King of Comedy 01:05:23: Goodfellas and how Scorsese feels about homages 01:09:30: Robert De Niro introducing him to Leonardo DiCaprio 01:12:17: The Aviator 01:16:23: The Wolf of Wall Street 01:19:06: Trumpism 01:19:38: Killers of the Flower Moon 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 Subscribe: Claim an extended BFI Player Subscription free trial (UK only) - subscribe using code BFIYOUTUBE: Watch more on BFI Player: Our TikTok: @britishfilminstitute Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on Twitter: