In defending and explaining his comment that Marvel movies aren’t cinema, legendary film director Martin Scorsese says that cinema is art and Marvel is more like a theme park — marvelous but not the same thing.
Whereas franchise films are “market-researched, audience-tested, vetted, modified, revetted and remodified until they’re ready for consumption,” Scorsese’s favorite films are the opposite.
Scorsese uses six contemporary filmmakers to deliver his point. “Another way of putting it,” he writes, “would be that they are everything that the films of Paul Thomas Anderson or Claire Denis or Spike Lee or Ari Aster or Kathryn Bigelow or Wes Anderson are not.”
Those six directors are making real art on film, according to Scorsese, despite working in a moment that he calls “brutal and inhospitable to art.”
Here are links (in the names) to the top movies from each, also with one random example. Each film can be streamed on Amazon.
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