Authors:David Thompson, Ian Christie,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: scorsese, revised
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-01-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0571220029
ISBN-13: 9780571220021

Martin Scorsese’s challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas--these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth.The interviews which make up this book chart the journey that Scorsese has taken across the years in search of new subjects to engage and absorb him, and in the process reveal a man who, like Michael Powell and Francios Truffaut, has an unbridled passion for film--a passi

Author: Vincent A. LoBrutto
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: biography, scorsese, martin
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0275987051
ISBN-13: 9780275987053

Martin Scorsese’s current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered America’s best living film director, and his Taxi Driver and Raging Bull appear frequently on worldwide surveys of the best films of all time. Here, in the first biographical account of this artist’s life, Vincent LoBrutto traces Scorsese’s Italian-American heritage, his strict Catholic upbringing, the continuing role of religion in his life and art, his obsessive love of cin

Author: Mark Nicholls
Publisher: Pluto Press Australia
Keywords: mob, melancholia, men, scorsese
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-21
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1864031565
ISBN-13: 9781864031560

Authors:Michel Ciment, Martin Scorsese,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: definitive, kubrick
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0571211089
ISBN-13: 9780571211081

With a new Introduction by Martin Scorsese.If Stanley Kubrick had made only 2001: A Space Odyssey or Dr. Strangelove, his cinematic legacy would have been assured. But from his first feature film, Fear and Desire, to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick created an accomplished body of work unique in its scope, diversity, and artistry, and by turns both lauded and controversial.In this newly revised and definitive edition of his now classic study, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick’s thirteen films--including such favorites as Lolita, A Cl

Author: Richard A. Blake
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: allen, scorsese, lee, lumet, york, smart, new, street
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-09-16
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0813123577
ISBN-13: 9780813123578

New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and glitter for the real thing, but in fact the City is a network of small villages, each with its unique personality. Street Smart offers a novel approach to understanding the cultural influences of New York s neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The city s diverse economic and ethnic enclaves

Authors:Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Christopher John F
Publisher: Amistad
Keywords: musical, journey, blues, presents, scorsese, martin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0060525444
ISBN-13: 9780060525446

Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today’s most popular sounds owe an incalculable debt to that uniquely American musical creation -- The Blues. But the powerful influence of the blues, with its dramatic, artful storytelling about the elemental experience of being alive, is found in the works of some of our most important literary voices as well.This volume -- a companion to the groundbreaking seven-part documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues -- represents a literary sampler every bit as vibrant and original and diverse as the films and music that i

Author: Peter Brunette
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: interviews, series, filmmakers, martin, scorsese
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578060729
ISBN-13: 9781578060726

From the moment he captured the film world’s attention with Mean Streets (1973), a portrait of life at the fringes of the Mob, it was clear that a dazzling cinematic talent had arrived on the scene. With Robert DeNiro, one of the most talented young actors from this film, Scorsese went on to make some of the greatest American films of the postwar period, including Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990). A Scorsese film seldom fails to stir controversy, for his devotion to realism has led him to forthrightly depict violence and its frightening randomness in the mod