5 Off My Head: Scorsese Dames

Top five working director Martin Scorsese is turning 75 today. He's been making movies for almost sixty of those years, as long as you count the shorts - he's at work now on The Irishman, which reunites him with his merry band of usual suspects including most excitingly an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci.

Anyway as excited as I am for The Irishman  I'm kind of sad he's still not paying much attention to actresses (I'm thrilled to see what he gets from Anna Paquin, but it looks like she's just about the only woman with a substantial role in it) so here to celebrate his birthday is a random list of five of my favorite performances from women in his movies. I have a list much much longer (some of them that I love even more than these five, even) but these were literally the first five that popped into my head and I liked the way they looked together.