LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2023: EDGAR WRIGHT IN CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN SCORSESE

On The Comic Crush, we share The 2023 London Film Festival’s conversation between filmmakers Edgar Wright and Martin Scorsese. The legendary director behind classics such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and The Wolf of Wall Street talks to fellow filmmaker Edgar Wright about his career. It is impossible to talk about cinema over the last 50 years without mentioning Martin Scorsese. The world of film preservation is no less indebted to him, for his championing the medium’s rich and storied past. As he unveils his latest opus, the epic historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon, the director explores a body of work that is as daring as it is beautiful, and ground-breaking as it is thrilling. From Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence and The Irishman, Martin Scorsese has investigated masculinity, honour, the tenets of faith and the forces that shape the world around us. He has done so with a virtuosity that is rarely short of breathtaking.

00:00: Ben Roberts, CEO of BFI, intro 02:11: Edgar Wright introduces Martin Scorsese 03:58: Philosophy of cinema. Other filmmaker's work. "More a teacher than a filmmaker" 06:24: Asthma and feeling safe in the cinema 11:14: The New York Underground 12:40: Early attempts at storyboarding and Marty's unmade Roman epic 15:03: How Mean Streets got made 31:32: Where the characters in Mean Streets came from 40:28: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and working in Hollywood 41:43: Taxi Driver 50:24: Thelma Schoonmaker, editing and Taxi Driver's X rating 58:32: The King of Comedy 01:05:23: Goodfellas and how Scorsese feels about homages 01:09:30: Robert De Niro introducing him to Leonardo DiCaprio 01:12:17: The Aviator 01:16:23: The Wolf of Wall Street 01:19:06: Trumpism 01:19:38: Killers of the Flower Moon Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Claim an extended BFI Player Subscription free trial (UK only) - subscribe using code BFIYOUTUBE: http://theb.fi/player-subscription Watch more on BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ BFI TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@britishfilmin... BFI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmI... BFI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishfilm... BFI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI