It takes an outsider to spot the best – and worst – things about the British.
When that outsider is Martin Scorsese, you’re in for a treat. Scorsese, a Times Literary Supplement subscriber, could have been a terrific film critic if he hadn’t been such a terrific film director.
Because of a strange licensing issue, US films weren’t shown on postwar American TV but British films were. And so Scorsese (b 1942) grew up watching British
