Thank you for capturing some things I missed, and my general point very succinctly.
When I was a poor university student I would go to the movies every week and pay to watch one film and sneak into a second. I watched hundreds of movies during that time, a lot of great films and some not so...
Fair enough. "Endless" is an exaggeration, but since he made Goodfellas in 1990, every third movie is a gangster film (or a something close to it). In particular, he seems to retreat to them after a film is less well-received.
2019The Irishman <-----
2016Silence
2013The Wolf of Wall Street...
I have to start by saying I think Scorsese is a brilliant filmmaker, but I find his endless re-visiting of the gangster genre to be tiring. Give me something more like Hugo.
I feel like Scorsese's chief complaint is that people are forgetting about Fellini, who was an incredibly important...