Martin Scorsese Names Two Movies Everyone Should See: And It's Not 'Shutter Island'

Martin Scorsese has been one of the main masters of the film industry for decades, and therefore it is not surprising that his advice and recommendations on cinema are perceived as something absolutely accurate and irrefutable. The director admitted that he himself once studied with the best filmmakers of his time, but only two films had the greatest influence on his work. in particular, from a technical point of view.

They, according to Scorsese, embody everything that the concept of "filmmaking" can include.

Martin Scorsese idolizes 8½ and Peeping Tom

The cult comedy drama by Federico Fellini and the dramatic thriller by Michael Powell, according to Martin Scorsese, are the only films that can show a future director the entire filming process, as well as how an objective and subjective view of things can be presented in cinema.

On their own, 8½ and Peeping Tom could easily be considered polar opposites, the former is about the glamorous life and the pleasure a director gets from his work; the latter, on the contrary, examines the same subject in a more brutal and even violent manner, which is conveyed even by the movements of the camera.

As Scorsese added, these two films could well become the basis for studying how people made films, or even how these same people expressed their own ideas and feelings through film.

Peeping Tom shocked audiences in the 1960s, despite being released at the same time as Hitchcock's Psycho

The film, which centers on a cameraman's assistant who kills his victims with a movie camera, was released in 1960 and left a negative impression on both critics and audiences. Despite the fact that Peeping Tom's release coincided with the equally shocking Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, it was the former that was criticized for its violence, and director Michael Powell lost the opportunity to make potentially successful films that would be produced by major studios.