Scorsese and Wright on British Cinema

It’s been said that even if Martin Scorsese had never picked up a camera, he would still have become one of the world’s great teachers of film. Scorsese’s knowledge of cinema is famously encyclopaedic, but it’s the way he has shared that knowledge that has been his true gift.

It was that generosity that Edgar Wright wanted to acknowledge when he wrote to Scorsese back in the uncertain days of the Covid lockdown in 2020. Shut up at home like us all, Wright had turned to a list of international film recommendations Scorsese had once compiled for a student…