I can’t remember when exactly I’d last watched E.T., but it was at least 20 years ago.
I loved it as a child. My parents renting and first showing it to me on VHS sticks out in my head as one of my foundational movie experiences. And yet, over time I’d just come to think less and less of it. Not that I ever felt negatively about it, but more that as I watched more and more movies I became…
Once in contention for my least favourite Wes, this film has now had a stranglehold on me for over a year. I love that.
What’s wrong with me? Let me think about that. I’ll tell you the next time I see it.
Towering.
A work that encapsulates so much of what makes Scorsese tick as a filmmaker, but also the ways in which his thematic interests have evolved…and how they can’t help but stay the same.
A significant share of the Scorsese project is and has long been America. It’s the pursuit of power and wealth that its foundational doctrines further forged and encouraged. It’s the personalities who are drawn to that chase, those who get swept up in the current, and…
