Martin Scorsese

2012 Oscar Nominations, Complete with Snubs, Surprises, and Mehs

The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year's best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese's Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out th ... More >>

Best Films of 2011: Ten and Two to Grow On

J. Hoberman's faves from a mutating medium.

Opening Credits: What's New at the Movies This Week, November 25

Tuckered out form the tryptophan-induced turkey coma? Blacked out from the Black Friday shop-a-palooza? Adventure and escape awaits at the cinema. It's a family friendly weekend at the theater for Thanksgiving weekend so round up the kiddos and the rest of your clan, because here's what's new at the ... More >>

Hugo: Scorsese Milks the 3-D Trend for a Cause

Issue flick comes across as a PSA for film preservation.

Gordon and the Whale Hosting Dinner And Special Screening Of The Departed Tonight

Don't question the man who orders cranberry juice at the bar.​Planning on channel surfing and slurping leftover spaghetti in your pajamas tonight? Yeah, that sounds like a lame idea, especially when the popular film site GordonandtheWhale.com is teaming up with Molly Maguire's (5815 Live Oak ... More >>

Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

Boxing Gym: Frederick Wiseman's Doc Scores a Knockout.

HBO's Boardwalk Empire Gets A Lift From Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights' "Devil's Basement." Also? MTV Still Likes The O's.

Lest there still remained any doubt about the cool factor backing up Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights and, specifically, it's icy-cool, blues jam freak-out "Devil's Basement," some pretty solid arbiters of cool--among them HBO, Martin Scorsese and, uh, Al Capone--have given the band and song ... More >>

Beatdown Avenue

Take a stroll down Mean Streets

Pride and Glory

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Jeez, Who Wasn't Invited to the Joule Grand Opening Shindig Friday Night?

United's Rolling Up the Red Carpet

In Shine a Light, Seniors Scorsese and The Stones Together Again

Dropkick Murphys' Al Barr Talks World Series and Oscar Wins

Oscar Overhaul

Straight Gangsta

See Goodfellas at the Inwood

Lazer

Saturday, September 8, at Forum Roller World, Grand Prairie

Keep the Meter Running

This Other Winner

The Modern examines secret lives on-screen

Buon giorno and Do svidaniya

See The Italian in Fort Worth

Oscar Oversight

Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

Can't Get a Fix on Crix' Pix for Best Flix

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Good Java

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (Sony)

The Cutter

The woman behind Raging Bull

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Car & Driver

It's the feel-bad movie of the week

Raising the Bar

At last, the USA Film Festival is back under the influence

See, Hear

Without Elmer Bernstein, scores of movies wouldn't have sounded the same

Rome Sweet Home

Martin Scorsese teaches Italian Film 101

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Play It Loud

Scorsese rockudrama remembers The Band

Obsessive, Compulsive

Documentary series takes a look behind the scenes

The Sundance Kidder

With his own movie in tow, Dallas' indie-film guru goes to Robert Redford's festival, falls in love with the First-Timer, and embraces the hype

Blurred vision

What will 1999 be remembered for -- Malkovich's head or Cartman's ass?

Nic at night

Scorsese manages to bring out the dead, especially in the living

Talking Heads

Stop Making Sense Special New Edition (Warner Bros.)

The wild--and mild--bunch

Warner Bros. celebrates its 75th birthday with a weeklong best-of fest

Hello, Dalai!

Scorsese's Kundun is drenched in holy water

Comfortably numb

The best films of '97 either provoked or entertained

Seen any good movies lately?

The best of 1995

Paradise lost

With Casino, Scorsese brilliantly leads us down the primrose path to heaven--and hell--on earth

Street scenes

Harvey Keitel talks about being discovered after 20 years of acting

Big sleep

Kiss of Death fires blanks in an increasingly tough crime saga competition

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Kicking the corpse

Why the new wave of horror films can't scare us