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Looking back on my parasocial relationship with the maestro of cinema—and 5 of my favorite Martin Scorsese films—upon the release of his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon

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Madeline Ostdick
Oct 19, 2023
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I’ll never forget the first time I watched Goodfellas.

The Last Waltz (1978)

It was the early 2000s and everything was awful: TV sucked; fashion sucked; politics sucked; and movies definitely sucked. Looking for sanctuary, my friend Adriana and I turned to cult films, determined to watch all of the “classics” of American cinema, as defined by the Internet…

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