Let's Party with Marty: A Martin Scorsese Podcast Let's Party with Marty: A Martin Scorsese Podcast

We've reached a Martin Scorsese milestone this week as we arrive at Taxi Driver. Fortunately, we're joined by the wonderful Jakub Flasz of the Uncut Gems podcast to help us unpack the myriad of things going on underneath the hood of this movie. Join us as we get into what is real and what isn't, the complicated and problematic legacy of this movie, the incredible score, and the very best pet hedgehog there ever was, Travis Prickle.

Arguably one of the films that most influenced Martin Scorsese — particularly Taxi Driver but also further across his career — 1958's Murder By Contract is a great lesson in "less is more." Sarah and MJ discuss the great score, why it's okay for bad guys to be good at what they do, and then go on a fun tangent about the films that affected them when they were 16.

This week we're joined by Lewis Wride, to talk about 1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. We get into the incredible performance from Ellen Burstyn, further Wizard of Oz parallels, why Vera is who we all aspire to be, and continue the discussion on why Martin Scorsese is actually a feminist.

This week we're back on the companion film list talking about 1951's Take Care of My Little Girl. Paired with Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, this obscurity has much to say about the American upper crust and the evils of sororities and fraternities that are hiding in plain sight ... and so do we!

This week Sarah and MJ are joined by the man who quite literally wrote the book on New York movies, Jason Bailey, to talk about Martin Scorsese's loving portrait of his parents. Italianamerican gets to the heart of the special sauce (quite literally) that inspires Marty to make movies and offers a fascinating glimpse into the immigrant experience.

In this week's episode, Sarah and MJ dive into Shirley Clarke's 1967 "documentary," Portrait of Jason. This episode is a real rollercoaster as we discover something of the truth behind the making of this fascinating snapshot, and have a small existential crisis about what even is real anyway. This film was chosen by Scorsese as the companion film to his 1974 portrait of his family, Italianamerican on his Letterboxd list.