When Martin Scorsese puts away his strutting cocks – his raging bulls, comedy kings and Wall Street wolves – the results can be astounding. This quieter, lesser-seen director is the one who gave us ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ (1988), the exquisite period piece ‘The Age of Innocence’ (1993) and now ‘Silence’, a furiously alive and concentrated parable about […]
The New Hollywood wave may be the most significant film movement in the history of American cinema. The classic era of Hollywood was built on vertical integration, meaning that the film studios controlled the production, distribution and exhibition of every movie they made, until the United States v Paramount Pictures Case forced the studios to […]