MARTIN SCORSESE'S FILM SCHOOL: THE 85 FILMS YOU NEED TO SEE TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FILM

Interviewing Martin Scorsese is like taking a master class in film. Fast Company’s four-hour interview with the director for the December-January cover story was ostensibly about his career, and how he had been able to stay so creative through years of battling studios. But the Hugo director punctuated everything he said with references to movies: 85 of them, in fact, all listed below.

Ace in the Hole
All That Heaven Allows
America, America
An American in Paris
Apocalypse Now
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Band Wagon
Born on the Fourth of July
Cape Fear
Cat People
Caught
Citizen Kane
The Conversation
Dial M for Murder
Do The Right Thing
Duel in the Sun
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Europa ’51
Faces
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Flowers of St. Francis
Force of Evil
Forty Guns
Germany Year Zero
Gilda
The Godfather
Gun Crazy
Health
Heaven’s Gate
House of Wax
How Green Was My Valley
The Hustler
I Walk Alone
The Infernal Cakewalk
It Happened One Night
Jason and the Argonauts
Journey to Italy
Julius Caesar
Kansas City
Kiss Me Deadly
Klute
La Terra Trema
The Lady from Shanghai
The Leopard
Macbeth
The Magic Box
M*A*S*H
A Matter of Life and Death
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Messiah
Midnight Cowboy
Mishima
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Nashville
Night and the City
One, Two, Three
Othello
Paisa
Peeping Tom
Pickup on South Street
The Player
The Power and the Glory
Stagecoach
Raw Deal
The Red Shoes
The Rise of Louis XIV
The Roaring Twenties
Rocco and his Brothers
Rome, Open City
Secrets of the Soul
Senso
Shadows
Shock Corridor
Some Came Running
Stromboli
Sullivan’s Travels
Sweet Smell of Success
Tales of Hoffman
The Third Man
T-Men
Touch of Evil
The Trial
Two Weeks in Another Town





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