Recently, in preparing for a series of library interviews, I have prepared lists of favorite movies, favorite books, and literature to help inform a library interview. The movies reference, in part, the presence in Scorsese's films of a solipsistic, modernist figure named Ted (Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and possibly Roosevelt). The Ted figure is present in other films from around that time period, which seem to reference that strategy in Scorsese's cannon, comment on it, and make it more absurd. It makes the Scorsese films sort of a game, and in some ways more interesting than cannonical Scorsese. Here the films are:
1. The Netflix cue itself (Michael Bay, Seth MacFarlane, Phillip Noyce, and Martin Scorsese)
3. Raging Bull
4. Eraserhead
These books are similarly modernist and postmodernist works, and reference narratives similar to these films and also how they might be perceived. Here those are:
1. The Passion of Martin Scorsese
2. Scorsese by Ebert
3. Moby Dick
4. The Portable Marx
In sum, here is my favorite book and movie:
Book: The Passion of Martin Scorsese
Movie: Shutter Island
Currently viewing: The Librarian.
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