Martin Scorsese
The great poet of American guilt. His men are always falling, from grace, from power, from themselves. His camera moves like jazz, his editing cuts like a knife through everything sacred.
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GoodFellas
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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New Hollywood titans who redefined American cinema — both obsessed with loyalty, family, and the dream corroded.
A Prophet is the French GoodFellas — a man rising through criminal hierarchy, losing himself entirely in the process.
City of God shares Scorsese's kinetic grammar and moral complexity — different continent, identical human truth.
Both through Irwin Winkler — the New York school of morally serious, socially urgent crime cinema.
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