Gangs of New York with Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks in person

Dir. Martin Scorsese. 2002, 170 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Henry Thomas, Brendan Gleeson. The title of Herbert Asbury’s 1928 book Gangs of New York could fit a good number of Martin Scorsese films, violently charged studies of the city’s subcultures from Mean Streets and Goodfellas to The Wolf of Wall Street andThe Irishman. A dream project in gestation for more than 25 years, Gangs of New York is the most operatic, spectacular, and brutal of all of Scorsese’s films, a 19th-century epic that spills over from bloody gang wars between immigrant groups to the Civil War draft riots. At the center, in a performance for the ages, is Daniel Day-Lewis’s Bill the Butcher, who more than carries the film’s epic ambitions.

Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Jay Cocks, who also worked together on The Age of Innocence, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Silence, will discuss their collaboration on Gangs of New York in a conversation moderated by series curator David Schwartz. Cocks earned an Academy Award nomination this year for his screenplay for A Complete Unknown. 

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