We are lucky to have Martin Scorsese. Although I am sure that opinions are different and there can be a healthy debate on this topic, in my modest opinion, Scorsese is our best life director. Hell, maybe I would even like to do a step away and suggest that he is the biggest director all the time. Sound hyperbolic? I don't really care. Film obsessive often imitated and never duplicated, Scorsese may not be the most famous financial successful member of New Hollywood era It has resorted the US cinema, but the case can be made that it is the best.

Still goes strongly to 82 (his latest feature, "Killers of the Flower Moon", "" is a full-fledged masterpiece), Scorsese's life and career gets the treatment of documents in the form of Mr Scorsese, the Apple TV+series, which gathered by Rebecca Miller. The results are charming and insightful, though to be fair, if you are Scorsese Nerdes like me, there is not much that you probably haven't heard.

But even if you are well acquainted with Marty Lore, Mr. Scorsese awaits the home that Scorsese is one of a kind, immensely gifted director who understands films (and their power) more than seemingly someone else. The doxies are not trying to diagnose it, and I am not a medical expert, but not so subtle implication that time and time again appears here is that Scorsese could be clinically obsessive-compulsive to the art of making films. The filmmaker is ahead and center through the Doxeries, offering often a funny commentary on his long career and that is ups and downs. Many of his closest associates are at hand, the most important longtime editor Telma Shunmiker, and of course his two most common men, Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio (the way Miller introduced De Niro to Doctor at the end of episode 1, is a complete rolling stone). Mr. Scorsese may not be the most important of the documentaries, but it serves as an oversee for one of the best of the best.

A small, sick child born to Italian immigrants in a version of Newouper, which no longer exists, Scorsese came to the cinema through fate or chance, take your choice. As "Mr Scorsese" points out, Scorsese has long been suffering from asthma (we actually see him as an explosion of his inhaler at one point during the interview). When he was a child living in a stalled building, flying was particularly brutal for young Marty - Heat made it difficult for Scorsese to breathe and the home of Scorsese had no air conditioning (most homes not in those days).

One place it Whether However, have air conditioning was cinema. So when Summers rolled, Scorsese's father would take him to the movies to escape the heat and help the lungs. An obsession was born, as Scorsese was spoiled with the moving image. (During this discovery, Miller cuts in an interview with director Spike Lee, who ridiculously summarizes things by proclaiming: "Thank God for asthma!"))

As Scorsese tells his story of origin, he also gives us a wonderful little detail for his childhood influence on his film style. Since his asthma stuck a lot as a child, he would spend hours looking through the window of his family apartment down the streets below. "That's why I like high -angle shots," says Scorsese, at which Miller is cut smartly in a series of memorable footage of high angle films. It's like a key that opens the door lock, discovering a brand new world.

"Mr Scorsese" follows a fairly standard format of life story, tracking Scorsese's childhood, his film school days in Uujork and his journey to Hollywood. Forever an outsider, Scorsese did not fit into LA and will certainly return to Newouper. His career will start a small student movie ("Who's knocking on my door"), editing (and some would argue co-regions) Gig of the Woodstock documentary and work with the legendary B-movie producer Roger Kunman ("Boxcar Bertha"). But some Many needed advice from independent film Auteur Johnon Cassetsks He made Scorsese realizing that he should not just be a rental director - he should make movies that actually mean something to him. And so he made "Mean Streets", the film he first joined with De Niro and set him on the road to become one of the greatest American filmmaker of all time.

Hence, Mr. Scorsese speed through the director's renowned career. Movies that may be considered his main works receive the most attention, while others only briefly touch (for example, "After hours", A movie that got a very deserved re-examination because it first opened in the 1980s feels a little unprotected here). On the way, there are many wonderful small anecdotes, such as how cocaine uses a sumptuous set of quasi-musical "Newoufor, New York" helping to write the crash on that movie. A considerable time is dedicated to both A religious reaction that emerged about "the last temptation of Christ".

De Niro is characteristically reserved about their collaborations, but Doc really highlights how important and vital their relationship and E (De Niro brought Scorsese "Ponnell Taurus" is highlighted as a kind of life saving moment, with the actor imposing the director to give the project shot while Scorsese was set up in a hospital due to a drug -induced illness). Doc was also waiting for the fact that Scorsese's association with Leonardo DiCaprio essentially revitalized the career of excellent directors - after a series of box office on the ropes, working with a big Starvist as DiCaprio to finally get his Passion for Passion "Gangs of Newouble" off the field And a partnership has launched that will lead to some of Scorsese's biggest financial hits.

Again: If you are obsessive Scorsese, you probably know the most if not all this already. But these are still entertaining stories of listening, and the way the documents mix the footage of Scorsese films just improve the experience. "Mr. Scorsese" is clearly more interested in the work of the director than his personal life, though that does not mean he ignores the biographical details. Scorsese's various marriages have been touched, and all three of his daughters sit for interviews here (Francesca, Scorsese's youngest daughterHe has become a celebrity in her own in recent years thanks to her ridiculous presence on social networks, but I want to give Kim to Domenica Cameron-Shorze, who meets here as a truly sweet and caring person; I wanted more moments with her).

After all, your enjoyment of Mr Scorsese will be reduced to how much you enjoy the work of Mr Scorsese. I suspect something here will suddenly convert one of his slanderers, though Miller and the people with whom interviews remind them again and again Why Scorsese is such a big deal. But if you are a colored-wild scores-head (like me!), "Mr. Scorsese" is like catnip. It is fast, it is funny, it is even a little melancholy (how can it not be? Scorsese is in the 80s, and the day when it leaves us will mark tragic loss for the cinema). But most of all, "Mr. Scorsese" is a celebration of our biggest director of living and confirmation that we are lucky to have experienced his art.

/Movie rating: 7 out of 10

Mr. Scorsese is transferred to Apple TV+ starting October 17, 2025.