Scorsese Posters UK — Goodfellas, The Departed, Casino & More

Martin Scorsese · Goodfellas · The Departed · Casino · The Wolf of Wall Street · The Irishman · Raging Bull — from £3

Martin Scorsese is the most critically acclaimed director working in Hollywood cinema: a filmmaker whose 55-year career has produced six films ranked in the IMDB Top 250 (Goodfellas, The Departed, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street), two Academy Awards for Best Director (Departed, The Aviator), and a filmography that encompasses gangster crime, psychological drama, historical epic and musical biography. At 98types Camden, six confirmed Scorsese film products are available: Goodfellas, The Departed, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman and Raging Bull — the complete Scorsese crime and drama canon as museum-grade wall art. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🎥 Martin Scorsese — The Career in Six Films

Martin Scorsese was born in 1942 in Corona, Queens, to first-generation Sicilian immigrants. He grew up attending the cinema in Little Italy, Manhattan, and enrolled in New York University's film school in 1960. His early films — Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973) — established his visual language: the rapid editing, the use of popular music as emotional counterpoint to violence, the Catholic guilt that inflects his male protagonists' self-examination. Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) established him as the defining American director of his generation.

The Scorsese filmography has three distinct periods. The first (1967–1980): the personal films, the Roger Corman exploitation (Boxcar Bertha), the American New Wave masterpieces (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull). The second (1982–2002): the commercial and prestige films (The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Kundun, Gangs of New York). The third (2004–present): the late-career renaissance (The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon). At 98types, confirmed products span the second and third periods: Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.

Goodfellas (1990) — The Greatest Gangster Film

Goodfellas (1990) received 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won one (Joe Pesci, Best Supporting Actor), and is consistently ranked as the finest gangster film ever made — ahead of The Godfather by many critics who value narrative energy over narrative solemnity. Based on Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy (1985), Goodfellas follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) from his childhood fascination with the mob through his rise in the Lucchese crime family to his eventual government witness testimony. The "Layla" sequence, the "funny how?" confrontation and the Copa steadicam shot are three of cinema's finest sequences.

The Departed (2006) — The Oscar Film

The Departed (2006) won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director — Scorsese's first Best Director win, received for a film that many critics considered one of his more commercial works compared to Raging Bull or Goodfellas. An adaptation of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002), The Departed follows two parallel moles — DiCaprio's Billy Costigan (a state police officer infiltrating the mob) and Damon's Colin Sullivan (a mob operative in the state police) — as each attempts to identify the other before being identified themselves. Jack Nicholson's Frank Costello is the finest comic-grotesque villain in any Scorsese film.

Casino (1995), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) & The Irishman (2019)

Casino (1995), with Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci, is Scorsese's three-hour account of Las Vegas mob control in the 1970s — a film that rewards patience with the most comprehensive picture of organised crime's intersection with legitimate business in cinema history. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, is Scorsese's most deliberately excessive film: a black comedy about financial fraud that refuses to condemn its protagonist even as it documents his crimes. The Irishman (2019), on Netflix, reunited De Niro, Pacino and Pesci for a film about the alleged killer of Jimmy Hoffa — a meditation on loyalty, age and moral cost that requires three and a half hours and rewards every minute.

Raging Bull (1980) — The Greatest Performance in Cinema History

Raging Bull (1980) is ranked number four in the AFI's 100 Greatest American Films and is the film for which Robert De Niro won his second Academy Award for Best Actor — a performance requiring both the physical peak of a professional boxer and the physical collapse of a self-destructive middle-aged man, for which De Niro gained 60 pounds. Jake LaMotta — the Bronx Bull, the middleweight champion of the world — is Scorsese's most fully realised exploration of Catholic guilt, male violence and the specific horror of self-sabotage.