Martin Scorsese has spent six decades turning a camera on other people's obsessions; Mr Scorseses turns one on him. Directed by Rebecca Miller, the documentary series pulls together intimate interviews and private archival material to trace the director across the many chapters of a working life that reshaped American film.
What is Mr Scorseses about?
Rather than a single chronological march through a filmography, the series treats Scorsese's career as a set of overlapping identities: the sickly Little Italy kid who watched films instead of playing outside, the film-school outsider who broke through with raw, personal work, and the veteran still directing in his eighties. Miller gets Scorsese himself on camera, alongside access to archives that have rarely been shown, and builds a portrait from the inside rather than the usual highlight reel of famous scenes. The series also brings in the people who worked across from him, giving weight to how his collaborators experienced the same decades he is narrating.
About the cast
The series is anchored by Scorsese in conversation, with Rebecca Miller doing double duty as director and interviewer. The extended cast of voices includes Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Steven Spielberg, each speaking to a different stretch of his career rather than repeating the same familiar anecdotes.
Context & significance
Documentary profiles of major directors tend to lean on film clips and critical commentary; this one leans instead on the subject's own account, backed by his personal archive. That approach fits a filmmaker whose work has always been personal in the first place, from his early New York features through his later, larger-scale productions. Coming from a documentary and biography lineage, the series sits alongside other insider-access profiles of American filmmakers, but its combination of a working director as subject and a working director as author gives it an unusually direct line to its material.
Watching Mr Scorseses on Ktime
Mr Scorseses is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, in a Farsi-language interface built for viewers watching from outside Iran. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, so audiences can follow the interviews and archival footage in whichever form suits them.