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S22E223 - Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors

Published: November 21, 2025

Duration: 46:06

Hollywood:1975. Martin Scorsese sits in his apartment, enraged. He wants to literally kill the man who is ruining his to-be-released film, Taxi Driver. Scorsese’s friends, filmmakers Stephen Spielberg, Brian De Palma, John Milius, and Paul Schraeder rush to Scorsese’s side to talk him out of committing murder, but when they arrive, their friend Marty acts less like himself and more like his Travis Bickle character from the film he’s trying to save. This is the story of that night. 

Martin Scorsese is certainly one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Jake wants to know: w...