Overview

• The five-part Apple TV+ docuseries debuted at the New York Film Festival on October 4 and will stream in full on October 17.
• Rebecca Miller conducted roughly 20 hours of interviews, blending Scorsese’s reflections with contributions from family and collaborators including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg and Jodie Foster.
• Scorsese recounts being expelled from a Catholic preparatory seminary as a teen for “behaving badly,” with the series framing faith as a throughline in his life and work.
• The documentary features first-person anecdotes, including Scorsese’s fury over Taxi Driver receiving an X-rating and his contemplation of drastic action to protect the film.
• Early reviews praise the access and storytelling while noting omissions or brief treatment of areas such as his preservation work and certain films, with some episodes adopting a brisk film-by-film approach.