Martin Scorsese created a Letterboxd account to share his love of cinema

Spoiler alert: no Marvel film appears in the director’s recommendations.

As surreal as it may be, Martin Scorsese, 80, opened his Letterboxd account. After grueling promotion for his latest film Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese has officially joined the film-focused social media site that encourages users to save and review films they’ve seen. We can easily imagine that his daughter Francesca has something to do with it since the young woman likes to feature her father in TikTok videos.

“I love the idea of ​​mixing different films into one list. We always learn new things in new lights, because each film is a conversation with another. The bigger the difference between two films, the better“, he wrote in description.

The director has already put together two lists, including one entitled “Companion films” where he cites and comments on the works that inspired his own feature films. as The Heiress (The Heiress in VO), released in 1949, which inspired him to Killers of the Flower Moon : “the relation between Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift have been a point of reference for Leo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and myself“, writes the filmmaker.

For The IrishmanScorsese cites three films where “even violence and betrayal unfold quietly“, including two French, Don’t touch the Grisbi (1954) and Rififi among men (1949): “I even used an extract of Grisbi’s music for the score“, he specifies. The list thus goes back through his incredible filmography, revealing his references for The wolf of Wall Street, Gangs of New York, Casino, The Time of Innocence, The Freedmen, Taxi Driver or Mean Streets.

In his other list, “Film Foundation”, the master shares his titanic cinematic culture more widely and freely. There are short films dating from 1911 (Curiosity) or even films like The Red River of Howard Hawks and the original film Ocean’s Eleven with Frank Sinatra And Dean Martinbut also the documentary on the Black Panthers by Agnès Varda. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Songthe founding film of Blaxpoitation, Accattone by Pasolini, Hello Sadness by Otto Preminger, and even Indian films like The Undefeated (Golden Lion in Venice in 1957).

Regardless, there isn’t a shadow of a Marvel film in the filmmaker’s recommendations.