Cinema’s leading critic and historian reviews a career of extraordinary achievements — and wonders whether America’s greatest living film-maker's best might be yet to come
, he rhapsodised over intimidating, passionate gangs, like the fragile kid who observed the “riffraff element” onThe Last Temptation of Christ. Put it this way: he has shown a yearning to be a good man, but it was Marty who insisted on playing the guy in the back of Travis’s cab, the one who talks about murdering his faithless wife.
I’m not sure a director had ever been so thrilled yet threatening in one of his own films. He wears a black beard in the scene. He seems movie-dangerous, because of the rapt intensity in the way he speaks. But he is still a pale kid at the cinema, like a saint and a devil, violent yet austere. I think those clashing impulses have worried Scorsese all his life.
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