Marty and the Male Gaze: Scorsese’s 26 Feature Films, Ranked
<p>About a year ago, I started a project to watch every feature film Martin Scorsese has ever directed, in chronological order.</p>
<p>Just over 59 hours (!) of Scorsese cinema later, I’ve reached the end of the list. It’s just in time for the October release of Scorsese’s latest, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Killers of the Flower Moon</a>, which will add another 3.5 (!!) hours to the <em>Hours of My Life I Have Lost to Watching Scorsese Movies That I Will Never, Ever Get Back </em>counter.</p>
<p>I’m not the only person who has watched all of Scorsese’s films and put them in ranked order on the internet. But when I read some of the top rankings, I didn’t see my opinions reflected in many of them. So, I wrote my own list. (This is it!).</p>
<p>This is a list for people who are newer to Scorsese’s filmography and want to learn more about it. It’s not a <em>movie</em> <em>list for girls</em> or a <em>feminist take on Scorsese</em>, but just my actual opinions, as a human female movie-watching person. And some of my opinions don’t match the mainstream — but <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/film-critics-male-female-study-1235276110/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">69% of film critics are men</a>, so maybe this has less to do with the quality of my analysis, and more to do with how we define who gets to have a “mainstream” popular opinion.</p>
<p>Before we get to the movies, here’s some reflections on what I learned.</p>
<h2>Lesson #1: Watching full director filmographies in order is fun</h2>
<p>This project was inspired by a podcast called <a href="https://sites.libsyn.com/408101" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Cinemythology</a> that started an movie-by-movie series on Scorsese. My partner and I decided it would be fun to follow along with their approach, and kept going even when they slowed their project.</p>
<p><a href="https://fanfare.pub/marty-and-the-male-gaze-a-ranking-of-scorseses-26-feature-films-44a1db8948bd"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>