5 Off My Head: Scorsese Dames

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Top five working director Martin Scorsese is turning 75 today. He's been making movies for almost sixty of those years, as long as you count the shorts - he's at work now on The Irishman, which reunites him with his merry band of usual suspects including most excitingly an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci.

Anyway as excited as I am for The Irishman  I'm kind of sad he's still not paying much attention to actresses (I'm thrilled to see what he gets from Anna Paquin, but it looks like she's just about the only woman with a substantial role in it) so here to celebrate his birthday is a random list of five of my favorite performances from women in his movies. I have a list much much longer (some of them that I love even more than these five, even) but these were literally the first five that popped into my head and I liked the way they looked together.

5 of my Favorite Female Scorsese Performances

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ellen in The Age of Innocence

"Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything."

Juliette Lewis as Danielle in Cape Fear

"If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day..."

Teri Garr as Julie in After Hours

"Hey Paul, do you like my hairdo?"

Sandra Bernhard as Masha in The King of Comedy

"Do you wanna be waiting here till next Shavuos?"

Jodie Foster as Iris in Taxi Driver

"I think that... that Cancers make the best lovers."

Like I said there are a whole bunch more I could've named
so please share your own faves in the comments...

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