Music & Redemption: A Scorsese Mini-Retro

January - February 2010

In anticipation of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Shutter Island — his 4th movie working with Leonardo DiCaprio — we are showing some of our favorite scenes from 3 films that fall into two groups of very different Scorsese collaborations, fictional and documentary.

After Scorsese made a concert film on The Band in 1978 did he have any idea that decades later he also would be working with Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones? For a filmmaker who has done his part in re-defining how pop music is used in the movies, Shine a Light (2008), a concert film about the Stones, and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) are key insights into how important music is not just for Scorsese but for cinema.

Our other highlight is of the under appreciated resurrection of Scorsese’s famed collaboration with screenwriter Paul Schrader. They previously worked on several films together, most famously Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and in 1999 the duo returned to New York to make the hallucinatory ode to city streets, personal guilt, and the possibility of redemption, Bringing Out the Dead.

We hope you will enjoy the clips in our mini-retrospective!