Billy Crystal is thinking back on his formative years in Martin Scorsese’s classroom. On the Dec. 15 episode of the “Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist” podcast, Crystal talked about his time ...

Billy Crystal and Martin Scorsese have no doubt shared many a room in their decades in show business, but it all started out at New York University. Crystal, a young film student, had Scorsese ...

Martin Scorsese has an extremely granular and nuanced knowledge of cinema, having studied practically every movie made after 1920. He is just as effusive in his praise for Alain Resnais’ 1961 tone ...

“I was in film school here [at NYU], and Martin Scorsese was my film production ... Most recently, Crystal appeared in the Apple TV+ drama Before, available to stream now.

The second part features Scorsese in a salon-style discussion with Jesuit Father James Martin, poet Mary Karr, and writer Paul Elie, reflecting on the lessons to be drawn from the biographies.

Despite there being a relatively small age gap between the pair, Crystal found himself being taught by Scorsese when he was a film student in the late 1960s. “And [he] had a big beard and granny ...