Martin Scorsese

  • Martin Scorsese – Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaMartin ScorseseUSA

    This tense urban drama stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has worked for years in one of New York’s most brutal neighborhoods, and the pressure of his job has taken its toll; plagued with self-doubt, he is haunted by the spirits of the people he couldn’t save, and while he desperately wants to quit his job, outside forces won’t let him walk away. Bringing Out the Dead brought director Martin Scorsese back to the streets of contemporary New York, one of his favorite locations, after three films set elsewhere: Kundun, Casino, and The Age of Innocence. The film also reunited Scorsese with screenwriter Paul Schrader, who scripted Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. The supporting cast includes Patricia Arquette as the daughter of a heart attack victim that Frank has fallen in love with, and John Goodman and Ving Rhames as two of Frank’s fellow drivers. — Mark DemingRead More »

  • Martin Scorsese – The Aviator (2004)

    2001-2010DramaMartin ScorseseUSA

    A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes’ career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

    2001-2010DocumentaryMartin ScorseseMusicalUnited Kingdom

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    Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan’s (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – Boxcar Bertha (1972)

    Martin Scorsese1971-1980CrimeExploitationUSA

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    ‘Boxcar’ Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early ‘30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man ’Big’ Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment. Based on “Sister of the Road,” the 1937 pseudo-autobiography of fictional character Bertha Thompson, written by anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson – A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

    1991-2000DocumentaryMartin ScorseseMichael Henry WilsonUSA

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    Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – Il Mio viaggio in Italia AKA My Voyage to Italy (1999)

    1991-2000DocumentaryItalyMartin Scorsese

    A follow-up to his 1995 television documentary A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage to Italy (Il Mio Viaggio in Italia) is a thrilling trip through six decades of seminal, great and near-great Italian films so dear to the celebrated Sicilian-American filmmaker. Easing us through a rich cornucopia of high-quality, largely black-and-white clips, Scorsese, who serves as an eloquent and lucid onscreen and offscreen commentator, makes highly personal and not always popular choices. Still, even when the clips are unfamiliar, the New York-based director, whose Gangs of New York is scheduled for release early next year, conveys with passion and clarity why these films are important to him and should be to us.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMartin ScorsesePerformanceUSA

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, ‘Rolling Thunder’ is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver (1976)

    1971-1980DramaMartin ScorseseUSA

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    A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – The Age of Innocence (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaMartin ScorseseUSA

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    This 1993 film, directed by Martin Scorsese, brings the Edith Wharton novel to life.
    Here it is — all the social comment and smoldering unrequited passions originally
    intended by the author. And now it’s in living color with academy award winning costume
    design reflecting New York society in the 1870s.

    Daniel-Day Lewis is cast as Newland Archer, the upper class young man in conflict
    between social convention and desire. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the Countess Ellen Olenska,
    who has already defied convention by marrying a European and is further defying
    convention by leaving her husband and returning to New York. However, in spite of his
    attraction to the countess, Newland Archer marries the beautiful but seemingly simple
    May Welland, played by Wynona Ryder, whose outstanding performance won her an academy
    award nomination.Read More »

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