Cinephiles, the movie gods are smiling upon us, because Martin Scorsese just joined Letterboxd. Words cannot contain what a momentous occasion this is. On the social media platform, Scorsese wrote that he's often asked "to pair my own pictures with older films," so he put together a list of 59 movies that serve as "companion" viewing to his films. Film bros far and wide—even the ones who write 1,000-word reviews instead of just making a little joke and moving on—this is our our day to rejoice. Marty is here. |
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Seminal texts, forgotten classics, and modern reinventions—they're all here, dear bloodthirsty readers. |
| The pairs that won't cramp your style (or feet). |
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Rep. Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine, has long been considered one of those "independent" bipartisan nuisances here in this shebeen. For example, he stood almost alone among Democratic members of the House opposing the most recent attempts to break this country's lunatic attraction to its firearms. Golden voted against expanded background checks, against raising the age requirement for the purchase of assault-type weapons from 18 to 21, and, ultimately, on July 29, 2022, Golden voted against an assault-weapons ban in the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo and in Uvalde, Texas in which those weapons were used to deadly effect. Then, this week, the Reaper dropped by Golden's congressional district in Lewiston, Maine. |
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You won't regret keeping it safe. |
| Climate-denier, anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ theocrat...just spitballing here. |
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There's a wonderful symmetry to the Gambino crime family. You can see this right away from two pictures of former bosses featured in the family photo album.The first, which dates back to 1957, finds Albert "the Mad Hatter" Anastasia, his face still swathed in post-shave hot towels, permanently relaxed in a barbershop due to multiple bullet holes that were arranged by the family's new patriarch, Carlo Gambino, who went on to enjoy a twenty-year reign. The second, of more recent vintage, has Gambino's brother-in-law Paul Castellano, anointed by Carlo on his deathbed to succeed him, stretched out on a sidewalk in front of a Manhattan steak house, also due to multiple bullet holes, orchestrated in this instance by yet another new Gambino family boss, John Gotti. |
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