“No doubt I’ll always be interested in underworld stories. But no cutesy films about mama’s pasta and people getting married. I can’t stand that.”
Originally published September 18, 1990
"We went in thinking, we'll document the Band's last concert and maybe we'll get something, maybe we won't. Then when the footage came back I just said, 'Wow. This is fantastic. We've got a movie.’ ”
Originally published May 29, 1978
"Televisions blare from every room in the Chateau Marmont. Reagan's in surgery... Jim Brady's near death... Dan Rather's in tears. The country's gone crazy. The world's about to collapse... And the Oscars have been postponed until tomorrow."
February 8, 2020
“Watching the filming, one wonders how many potential ‘taxi drivers’ stalk the city streets. Where does life begin and Central Casting end?”
Originally published August 18, 1975
“I like the idea of spurting blood. It's like a, God, it's really like a purification, you know, the fountains of blood. It's a personal thing”
Originally published April 5, 1976
In 1982, Terrence Rafferty spoke to Martin Scorsese’s longtime editor about the art of the cutting room.
October 2, 2018
Part two of the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of this on-the-cheap studio unleashes a fresh arsenal of little-seen discoveries
August 7, 2018
“I see myself kind of like a tenor. And a tenor needs to hit those high notes once in a while.”
March 14, 2018
The Museum of Modern Art's two-part series attests to Republic's legacy of cost-effective genre allure
February 6, 2018