Director Spotlight Lecture Series: Martin Scorsese

Over eight weekly 90 minute sessions, we'd like to take you on a journey where together we can explore the career and work of Martin Scorsese. We’ll begin with the formative childhood experiences that created the obsessions and passions that have driven him throughout his career, and explore how they have become the subjects of his very personal body of work. We’ll move chronologically through his career, and in each session, we’ll focus on two key films in each decade:

22nd July Session 1 - Scorsese’s early life and university shorts; 1967 feature debut ‘who’s that knocking at my door’; setting the scene for ‘Taxi Driver’ which will screen on 25th July

29th July Session 2 -  Scorsese in the 70’s with a focus on ‘Mean Streets’ 1973; ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ 1974

5th August Session 3 - in depth analysis of ‘Taxi Driver’ 1976

12th August Session 4 - Scorsese in the 80’s with a focus on ‘ Raging Bull’ 1980; ‘King of Comedy’ 1982

19th August Session 5 - Scorsese in the 90’s with a focus on ‘Goodfellas’  1990; ‘Cape Fear’ 1991; Goodfellas will screen on 23rd August

26th August Session 6 - Scorsese in in the 00’s with a focus on ‘the Aviator’ 2004; ‘the Departed’ 2006

2nd September Session 7 -Scorsese in the 2010’s with a focus on ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ 2013; ‘Silence’ 2016; setting the scene for Hugo which will screen on xxx

9th September Session 8 - Scorsese in the 2020’s with a focus on ‘the Irishman’  2019; ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ 2023.

The sessions will be informal and interactive. Danny certainly won’t be lecturing you on ‘his views on Marty’. He sees his role really as putting in the work of curating material from books, articles, film clips, documentary footage etc that he can bring and share for us to look at and discuss on our journey.

You won’t have to have seen all the films we’ll be discussing, but of course it will definitely help. Also, you don’t have to attend the screenings of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and Hugo at the Art Gallery, but it will be a treat to see them on the big screen, and it will help with the Belmont Cinema fundraising.

We look forward very much to seeing you in July, and joining you on the journey with Marty and his work.

Registration Fees help cover the cost of running this series and any donations will contribute toward the Save The Belmont Campaign to reopen, refurbish, and reimagine Aberdeen's Only Independent Cinema.

The Director Spotlight Lecture Series is Supported by Creative Scotland and Aberdeen City Council's Cultural Investment Programme.