Scorsese, Martin (1942—)
By the end of the 1990s, Martin Scorsese was recognized as one of the most significant of American film directors. His uncompromising cinematic examination of New York ...
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Martin Scorsese (born 1942) is a director and writer of highly personal films about intense loners who struggle against their own inner demons and the violence of their urban environments. While many ...
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Martin Scorsese is the director of some of American cinema's most striking works, including the celebrated Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and GoodFellas. He first became interested in movies ...
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Critical Essay by George Morris
Taxi Driver is a remarkable achievement, a crazy, excessive, erratic masterpiece, but a masterpiece just the same. Scorsese has always interested me as a director, but...
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Critical Essay by Terry Curtis Fox
The Last Waltz was not just work; it was a special kind of anchor. [Marty Scorsese's] love affair with rock and roll, his commitment to music as a form, is a...
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Critical Essay by James Monaco
None of the new filmmakers has created as strong a public persona as Martin Scorsese. Hunted, haunted, asthmatic, diminutive, darkly bearded, a victim of religious nigh...
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Critical Essay by Robert Phillip Kolker
[Scorsese] does not create narratives that are easily assimilable. The formal structure of his work is never completely at the service of the viewer or of the ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Powell
Not since the beginnings of [Akira] Kurosawa have we seen such nervous authority. From [Martin Scorsese's] earliest films he started a dialogue with the audien...
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Canby, long associated with The New York Times, is one of the most distinguished American film and theater critics. In the following review, a portion of which appeared in CLC-20, he praises Scorsese&...
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Braudy is an American critic and educator who specializes in film history and film theory. In the following excerpt from an essay in which he compares the works of Italian-American directors Francis F...
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In the following excerpt, Kelly considers the influence of Scorsese's religious upbringing on his films.
Every Catholic school child learns the difference between a sign and a symbol. A sacr...
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In the following excerpt, Ehrenstein examines Scorsese's career and filmmaking techniques.
Halfway through Taxi Driver, director Martin Scorsese turns up in an acting role, playing a fare pi...
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Farber is an American critic and educator widely esteemed for the unique style and original insights of his film criticism. He is noted for having championed such diverse genres as the American action...
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In addition to being a highly regarded film critic, Gilliatt was an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and screen-writer, best known perhaps for the Academy Award-nominated screenplay Sunday, Bloo...
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Berlin (dpa) - Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine
a Light will open the Berlin film festival on February 7, organizers
confirmed on Wednesday.
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A fire on the set of "Rome," a completed HBO series on the ancient empire, has damaged part of the famed Cinecitta film studios. No one was reported injured.The blaze, which started late Thursday, ...
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It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Mar...
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Rome (dpa) - At Rome's first Film Festival, it's the stars with
their remarks to the hordes of reporters who are eclipsing the films.
"Me, a sex symbol, at 57?" asks...
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From "Good Vibrations" to "GoodFellas," Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the "wild and crazy guys." Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher ...
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BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The annual Berlin Film Festival
opens on Thursday with "Shine a Light", Martin Scorsese's
documentary about the Rolling Stones. The movie launches 11 days of screenings, ...
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Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and envelope-pushers Rosie O'Donnell and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the entertainment newsmakers on Time magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world.The list of ...
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The mob epic "The Departed" and the road-trip comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" won top honors Sunday at the Writers Guild of America Awards.William Monahan won the adapted-screenplay prize for "The De...
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Martin Scorsese wants to save the world cinema.The Academy Award-winning director said Tuesday it was a "dream come true" to launch his international project at the Cannes Film Festival, where his ...
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