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Scorsese Scores?

Along with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee and Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese belongs to a very exclusive club: Legendary Directors Without Oscars, a/k/a The Academy Snub Club.

That’s due to change when the maker of Raging Bull and The Aviator is expected to win a best director statuette for The Departed, his ultra-violent and ultra-enjoyable story starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, respectively, as a police mole in the Boston mob and a mob mole in the Boston police.

As is frequently the custom, Scorsese will not win the prize for what is regarded as his best work. What do you think his best film is? The Aviator, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ or Raging Bull – all films for which he was nominated?

Or is it The Age of Innocence, The Color of Money, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz or Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore? – Scorsese films that look even better now than when they were released?

Because they’re in heavy rotation on cable right now, and because their implicit violence has deeper resonance than the explicit sequences of Raging Bull and Goodfellas, I’m inclined towards The Aviator and The Age of Innocence, exquisite variations on Scorsese’s consistent theme, the crashing and burning of American dreamers. What’s your choice? Why? Show your work.

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Carrie Rickey has been The Philadelphia Inquirer’s film critic for 21 years. She has reviewed films as diverse as “Water” and “The Waterboy,” profiled celebrities from Lillian Gish to Will Smith, and reported on technological beakthroughs from the video revolution to the rise of movies on demand. Her reviews are syndicated nationwide and she is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and NPR. Rickey’s essays appear in numerous anthologies, including “The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll,” “The American Century,” and the Library of America’s “American Movie Critics.”

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