Martin Scorsese is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker who has directed more than twenty features, including The Last Temptation of Christ, available from the Criterion Collection. He is the founder of the nonprofit Film Foundation and World Cinema Project, dedicated to preserving and presenting marginalized films from around the globe. A box set of World Cinema Project titles is available from Criterion.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Paisan
Roberto Rossellini
1946
125 min
2
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
133 min
3
The River
Jean Renoir
1951
99 min
4
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
1953
96 min
5
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda
1958
103 min
6
L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
1960
144 min
7
Salvatore Giuliano
Francesco Rosi
1962
119 min
8
8½
Federico Fellini
1963
139 min
9
Contempt
UnavailableJean-Luc Godard
1963
103 min
10
The Leopard
UnavailableLuchino Visconti
1963
186 min