Filmin: 10 Unmissable Works in Scorsese's Favorites Collection

Martin Scorsese is one of the most iconic filmmakers in the film industry, having proven countless times that the seventh art is indeed an art. Because of this, Filmin wanted to pay tribute to his filmography and draw up a list of 113 films that have marked the director’s career. A series of timeless works that no cinephile should overlook. ‘Metropolis’ Fritz Lang was one of the promoters of cinema in its origins and, in 1926, he signed this allegory about the work structure set in a dystopian future. We are facing one of the most famous and influential films in the history of cinema that, over the years, has been subject to constant reissues. In Filmin we can find the original version, as well as the 1984 version of just over an hour, compared to more than three of its original montage: ‘La dolce vita’ Martin Scorsese’s foundation reissued ‘La dolce vita’, considered by many as the best movie of all time. Federico Fellini won the Oscar for best director in a dramatic story about a journalist who, in search of an exclusive, begins to pursue a movie star. A classic that Filmin brings us closer to in its restored version. ‘Eight and a half’ We cannot talk about Fellini without commenting on ‘Eight and a half’, also present in the Martin Scorsese collection created by Filmin. Winner of the Oscar for best foreign film, this film took us into the filmmaker’s most intimate imaginary: a story about creative inspiration that automatically became his most recognized film. A tribute to the world of celluloid from which dozens of directors have subsequently drawn on to perform their own works.’Lawrence of Arabia’ Two years of filming and almost four hours in length is the time it took ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ to burn his name in the history of cinema. TE Lawrence’s mission during the First World War, in which he had to deal with the conflict between Turkey and the Arab people, was a cinematic event in style; counting on one of the largest budgets to date. The film won 7 Oscars and is still as alive as ever thanks to streaming. ‘Psychosis’ It is impossible to talk about film history without making a mention of Alfred Hitchcock. The iconic classic film director repeatedly changed the industry’s schemes and, in ‘Psycho’, took the concept of the script twist to the next level. The shower scene marked a milestone and, terrorizing his entire audience in 1960, no one doubts that he is the master of suspense par excellence.’Knight without a sword ‘Following the line of the great directors who left a remarkable legacy in the world of cinema, it’s time to talk about Frank Capra. Capra’s mastery of playing with human emotions and taking his characters on unexpected paths had one of its highest points in ‘Knight Without a Sword’. James Stewart’s prodigious performance was the icing on the cake: ‘Apocalypse Now’ Vietnam burns in napalm, helicopters roar fiercely and the ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ echoes to the rhythm of destruction. An unforgettable sequence with which Francis Ford Coppola demonstrated all his cinematographic power, minutes before entering a “horror” that was pure magic on the big screen. A war film work that represented a before and after in what could be expected of the genre.’The third man’Orson Welles was not only a director who changed the schemes of classical cinema, opening the doors to Mannerist cinema – a trend in which the director’s work took on special relevance and became a language in itself-, but who also earned great recognition in his acting career. This noir film is one of the most idolized and, regardless of the passage of time, nothing will prepare you for the end. ‘The Messiah’ ‘The Messiah’ by Rossellini was his last film, chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth from the particular point of view of the director. The story has been told countless times – even by Scorsese himself with ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ -; However, in none of them do we find such an evident force in the dialogue. ‘400 Strokes’ We finished the Martin Scorsese collection in Filmin with the film that gave value to the cinematographic trend of the 60s known as “Nouvelle Vague”. From France, the formal techniques of the seventh art were reformulated, innovating in montage to test new narrative paths. ‘The 400 blows’ was the starting point started by François Truffaut and, like any movement in cinema, it had a remarkable heyday that lasted in the consciousness of the best directors, such as Scorsese.