On the genesis of the Young Eight musicians often threaten to go out "knocking on doors" to get an audience to show up for their classical concert or string recital. Quinton I. Morris, founder of the three-year-old string octet the Young Eight,...

(JU-SU-JI-E-SEON GEON-JIN CHI-TA) (SOUTH KOREA) A Relay Film production. (International sales: Indievision, Seoul.) Produced by Choi Sang-moon. Executive producer, Sire Gil- jung. Directed, written by Yang Hae-hoon. Camera (color), Jeong Hee-seong; editors, Kim Sun-min, I Yeon-jeong; music, Song Joon-seok; production...

Scorsese's first feature was premiered at the Chicago Film Festival in 1967 under the title of I Call First. To increase the film's chances of distribution, Scorsese was persuaded to shoot a nude fantasy scene, and with this sequence added, I Call First was released and the title later changed to Who's That Knocking at My Door. Although at first glance this added sequence seems to dovetail quite neatly into the film, it is in fact almost disastrously disruptive for two reasons. First, i...

[Who's That Knocking at My Door? explores] the hermetic environments of working-class post-immigrant American society…. Knocking's Italian-America [is a social structure] in which the isolation of imported nationalism and Roman Catholicism collides with dreary urban or industrial town living to produce characters somewhat dislocated in time and place. [The film doesn't seem] quite up to date…. A world where guys still wear white shirts and grey suits to a party … be...

J. R., the troubled hero of Martin Scorsese's first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?", is the sort of young man who, in a total confusion of values, can one minute offer to "forgive" the girl he loves for having been forcibly raped, and the next minute accuse her of being a whore. Puritan Roman Catholicism, the kind that bedeviled Stephen Dedalus and Studs Lonigan, is alive and ill and in the movies…. [Scorsese] has composed a fluid, technically...