Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Silence. To many, it might seem like one of those movies doesn't belong. However, I'm here to tell you that they all belong, because they're all masterpieces from ...

Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo’s Silence with a simple, impossible question: “How do you tell the story of Christian faith?” The director isn’t presumptuous ...

Although Martin Scorsese is perhaps most notable for his crime films, another theme he likes to explore is religion. Raised in a predominantly Catholic environment, religion influenced his sense of ...

Near the end of "Silence," Fr. Sebastião Rodrigues (played by Andrew Garfield) lowers his foot towards the fumi-e, a tablet containing the likeness of Jesus that he has to defile in order to renounce ...