Scorsese by Ebert Paperback – 15 Sept. 2009

A perfect study of Martin Scorsese the man and the director, from the 1960s to the 2000s, with explanation and in-depth analysis from one of our greatest ever critics. Very pro-Scorsese but with good reason, and it's redoubled my already very great appreciation of both Scorsese and Ebert.

I have a great respect for Roger Ebert as a film critic and an even bigger respect for Scorsese as an artist in his field. This book however is merely a collection of Ebert's reviews of Scorsese's films which you can access online for free. You find yourself constantly reading the same things written by Ebert as he includes "reconsiderations" of his original reviews where Ebert repeats and repeats and whilst there are some interesting pieces in what Ebert says, there is only a few moments we get to read something from Scorsese and what really happened behind the scenes. I'd go as far as saying it's a bit scandalous that this is being on face value, sold as some investigative biography on Scorsese by Ebert, it's a copy and paste exercise of Ebert's reviews with Ebert constantly praising Scorsese, you read no end of it and it becomes a very hard, annoying and repetitive read.