
With Wolf, things come full circle-it's this film that's got everything in common with Boogie Nights. But now there's an actual Scorsese movie out, The Wolf of Wall Street, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, a real-life stockbroker who lives the very high life in the 1990s while committing securities fraud and the sorts of (mostly) white-collar crimes that land you in federal prison. Some also said American Hustle felt like it was directed by Martin Scorsese. You can see the point, but where Boogie Nights careens wildly and joyously off its rails, American Hustle plods here and there ( here's my review). They're alike mostly aesthetically-outlandish costumes, period music, that sort of thing.

Anderson's 1997 movie about the pre-AIDS heyday and subsequent fall of the pornography industry in the 1970s.


This month American Hustle, based on the Abscam scandal of the 1970s, garnered comparisons to Boogie Nights, P.T.
