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 of his works reflect his experience as an...

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 while growing up in Manhattan's Little Italy....

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 City's underbelly, beginning with Mean Streets (1973), has exerted a profound...

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (pronounced /skɔrˈsɛsi/[1]; in Italian, IPA: [luˈtʃaːno skoɾˈseːze]) (b. November 17, 1942) is an iconic Italian-American Academy Award-winning film director, writer and producer. Also affectionately known as...

Martin Scorsese Von Georg SeeÃlen. Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2003, ca. 500 S., zahlr Abb., 25,00 EUR Coppola, DePalma, Cimino, De Niro, Pacino und last, but not least Scorsese: Es gibt, zumindest in Deutschland, noch keine Publikation, die Fragen nach der Gemeinsamkeit und...

In 1962 mobs in Pakistan stoned an American consulate and two English-language movie houses on the rumor, which turned out to be groundless, that a U.S.-Italian movie company was planning to make a film about the life of Mohammed. In 1977, in Washington,...

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, burned through about 32,000 square feet, firefighters said. The sprawling complex...

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 Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...

In the following excerpt, Ehrenstein examines Scorsese's career and filmmaking techniques.

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 films of the 1950s, particularly those directed by Sam Fuller; existential, European art films, specifically those of Robert Bresson: and the American avant-garde cinema, as exemplified by the works of Michael Snow. In the following essay, he and Patterson examine Taxi Driver, noting that the film's co...

[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 story it is creating. There is an unashamed self-consciousness in his work and a sense of kinetic energy that sometimes threatens to overtake both viewer and story, but always provides a commentary upon the viewer's experience and prevents him or her from easily slipping into a series of narrative events. (pp. 207-08) Scorsese is interested in ...