KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese)
MONSTER (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
CERRAR LOS OJOS (Víctor Erice)
FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismaki)

A bracingly audacious scene, featuring a brief cameo from the director himself, makes the point that it’s not just the land and its resources that were pillaged from the Native American people, but the culture and their stories as well. Including this one.

the mastermind behind an epidemic of murders and a wholesale grab of land, resources and money. But just when you think it’s about to settle into the familiar tropes of the crime investigation procedural, Scorsese pulls a final sleight of hand.

And now, in Scorsese’s masterful adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon, there’s hapless Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the dull-edged nephew of machiavellian cattle rancher William Hale (a towering, treacherous Robert De Niro),

here’s a perennial fascination in the films of Martin Scorsese with the notion of power – the structures of it, the layers to it, the flow of it.