Conversations with Scorsese

In a series of in-depth interviews conducted over several years, film critic Richard Schickel directs the director of Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and many other stunning cinematic creations in a performanceilluminated by Scorsese's insight, intelligence, and preternatural alertness.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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