Los Placeres Culpables de Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese’s guilty pleasures
Film Comment, May-June, 1998 by Martin Scorsese

SPECTACLE

Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Howard Hawks). When I first saw it, as a kid, Land of the Pharaohs became my favorite film. I’d always been addicted to historical epics, but this one was different: it gave the sense that we were really there. This is the way people lived; this is what they believed, thought, and felt. You get it through the overall look of the picture: the low ceilings, the torchlit interiors, the shape of the pillars, the look of the extras. There’s a marvelous moment when the dead are being taken...