For more than half a century, Martin Scorsese has surprised and provoked, shocked and illuminated, and – of course – entertained America, as few other filmmakers ever have.

Perhaps our greatest living filmmaker, Scorsese exploded into the cultural consciousness in the 1970s with “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver,” two propulsive movies that captured the way real people talk in the street and the simmering rage that fueled America’s propensity for violence.

He took all that to the next level in 1980 with his masterpiece “Raging Bull.” After the underrated but prescient “The King of Comedy,” the commercial hit “The Color of Money” and the endlessly controversial “The Last Temptation of Christ,” Scorsese again emerged on top with the wildly successful and hugely influential gangster film, “Go

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