Let's Party with Marty: A Martin Scorsese Podcast

Our final stop before Raging Bull it's a doozy! Rocco and His Brothers was clearly a huge influence on Martin Scorsese's own boxing drama, but it is also a great, great movie in it's own right. Join Sarah & MJ as they discuss the beautiful brutality of this movie, why sometimes 3 hours movies are okay actually, and finish things off with a quite frankly shocking revelation from Sarah to get you pumped up for the next episode.

Inching ever closer to Raging Bull, this week we talk about 1964's Gertrud, aka the movie that could've been an email. We talk about the pitfalls of adapting a play into a film — as well as those that manage to pull it off — and the crucial element to making unlikeable characters watchable.

Strap in, the slow journey towards Raging Bull continues, and this week we discuss 1948's Force of Evil. We get into the similarities between this and On the Waterfront as well as some of the takeaways Martin Scorsese had for his own films ... beyond just Raging Bull.

This week, Sarah and MJ begin the long and winding road that leads to Raging Bull with On the Waterfront! They are joined by Matthew Germenis for this super-sized episode where they unpack everything from the location shooting and brilliant performances to the way Scorsese was influenced by this film in several ways, and of course, the perceived apologism for Kazan and Schulberg testifying to the HUAC.