The Departed (2006)

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning crime thriller follows an undercover cop and a mob mole in the police attempting to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in Boston. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson star.

With an introduction by Mark Binelli, author of Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese's Life in Film

Just a Shot Away traces the mythic origins of Martin Scorsese, America’s greatest modern filmmaker, in a style as audacious as the director’s movies, and drawing on previously unseen sources, original research, and new interviews to reveal the genius and influence of his life and work. Through deep archival research, interviews with dozens of friends and collaborators, and access to a trove of previously undiscovered material, including firsthand accounts from Scorsese, his parents, Robbie Robertson, Robert De Niro, and ex-wife Isabella Rossellini, Just a Shot Away dynamically recasts the life of the master filmmaker with brio and the headlong, form-shattering dynamism of one of its subject’s own indelible pictures.

Mark Binelli is the author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and the novels Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits. A features writer at Rolling Stone for twenty years, he is now a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.

Signed books will be available for purchase during intermission and after the show, in the front lobby.