Every Martin Scorsese Film Ranked Worst To Best

New York Stories was a small exercise in filmmaking that features three short films from Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen. Of the three, Scorsese is the only one whose instalment really works, and as a whole the project is a bit of a tonal misfire.

Scorsese's segment is titled "Life Lessons," and stars Nick Nolte as a lovelorn painter fuelled by his feelings for his provocative assistant (Rosanna Arquette). As a tale of passion, creativity and manipulation, Scorsese's vision is a finely crafted character study that nonetheless would have perhaps benefitted from being a feature length film.

Coppola and Allen both miss the mark with their short stories, letting the inspired team-up down in the end, but for fans of Scorsese, it's worth hunting down to see what could have been.