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137-730: Herbert Asbury (September 1, 1891 – February 24, 1963) was an American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries, such as Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld , The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld , Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America and The Gangs of New York . The Gangs of New York
274-551: A Best Director Award at Cannes, Scorsese made an esthetic shift back to a pared-down, almost "underground" film-making style. Filmed on an extremely low budget, on location, and at night in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, the film is a black comedy about one increasingly misfortunate night for a mild New York word processor ( Griffin Dunne ) and features cameos by such disparate actors as Teri Garr and Cheech & Chong . Along with
411-457: A gas attack (as a result, he had health problems throughout his life). He received an honorable discharge in January 1919. Asbury achieved first notoriety with " Hatrack ", a story that H. L. Mencken published in his magazine, The American Mercury , in 1926. The story profiled a prostitute from Asbury's hometown of Farmington, Missouri . The prostitute took her Protestant customers to
548-559: A priest , attending a preparatory seminary , but failed after the first year and was unable to attend Fordham University . This gave way to cinema and consequently Scorsese enrolled in NYU's Washington Square College (now known as the College of Arts and Science ), where he earned a B.A. in English in 1964. He went on to earn his MA from New York University 's School of Education (now
685-689: A Documentary/Nonfiction Program , losing to Baghdad ER . Scorsese returned to the crime genre with the Boston-set thriller The Departed , based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs (which is co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak ). The film continued Scorsese's collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio and was the first time he worked with Matt Damon , Jack Nicholson , Mark Wahlberg , and Martin Sheen . The Departed opened to widespread critical acclaim, with some proclaiming it as one of
822-400: A band onstage... It's not Casablanca , but it's a great thing to have from our point of view, not being egotistical. It's a document." In 2009, Scorsese signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski , who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges , which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as
959-505: A brief cameo appearance in the film Anna Pavlova (also known as A Woman for All Time ), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell . This led to a more significant acting appearance in Bertrand Tavernier 's jazz film Round Midnight . He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of Steven Spielberg 's Amazing Stories . With After Hours (1985), for which he won
1096-691: A celebrity. Asbury then focused his attention on a series of articles debunking temperance crusader Carrie Nation . The following year he wrote a biography of Francis Asbury . Herbert continued working as a reporter for various newspapers including The Atlanta Georgian , the New York Sun , the New York Herald and the New York Tribune . In 1928, he decided to devote his time exclusively to writing. During this time, he wrote numerous books and magazine articles on true crime. He
1233-614: A committee of the Council on Library Resources and subsequently by the American National Standards Institute . Each volume is printed on thin but opaque acid-free paper, allowing books ranging from 700 to 1,600 pages to remain fairly compact (although not as small as those in La Pléiade). The paper used means the books will last a very long time without crumbling or yellowing. All volumes in
1370-597: A first-time director, Kevin Costner ( Dances with Wolves ). Joe Pesci earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Scorsese and the film also won many other awards, including five BAFTA Awards, a Silver Lion and more. The American Film Institute placed Goodfellas at No. 94 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. On the 2007 updated version, they moved Goodfellas up to No. 92 on
1507-511: A level of greatness is sometimes associated with whether they have the imprimatur of the Library of America. Writing for The Sewanee Review , the academic Michael Gorra has said that "the Library has shaped and indeed expanded our sense of what counts as American literature ... what makes the Library of America so valuable is the risks it takes around the edges of what used to be American literature". The Library of America has attracted
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#17327719029741644-409: A low-budget independent film into a media sensation. Most of the controversy centered on the final passages of the film, which depicted Christ marrying and raising a family with Mary Magdalene in a Satan -induced hallucination while on the cross. In 1986, Scorsese directed the 18-minute short film Bad featuring Michael Jackson and Wesley Snipes (in his film debut). The short also serves as
1781-491: A major return to personal filmmaking with the project; Universal Pictures agreed to finance the film as Scorsese agreed to make a more mainstream film for the studio in the future (it eventually resulted in Cape Fear ). Even prior to its 1988 release, the film (adapted by Taxi Driver and Raging Bull veteran Paul Schrader) caused a massive furor, with worldwide protests against its perceived blasphemy effectively turning
1918-600: A music video and was shot in the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station in Brooklyn over a 6-week period during November and December 1986. The short film's cinematographer was frequent Scorsese collaborator Michael Chapman . The dancing and filmmaking was heavily influenced by the 1961 film West Side Story . Scorsese also noted the influence of his own film Taxi Driver (1976) in Spike Lee 's documentary about
2055-448: A number of criticisms as well, including accusations of selection biases in favor of literary and political trends and the questionable inclusion of certain writers ostensibly non-canonical. An offshoot series put out in 1989 by Vintage Books that was associated with the Library of America name was faulted as overly commercial and exploitative. Even the marketing for the main series has been reproved as overbearing, in that it exaggerated
2192-574: A pitch-black comic take on their own earlier Taxi Driver . Like earlier Scorsese-Schrader collaborations, its final scenes of spiritual redemption explicitly recall the films of Robert Bresson. (It is also worth noting that the film's incident-filled nocturnal setting is reminiscent of After Hours .) It received generally positive reviews, although not the universal critical acclaim of some of his other films. It stars Nicolas Cage , Ving Rhames , John Goodman , Tom Sizemore , and Patricia Arquette . On various occasions Scorsese has been asked to present
2329-472: A place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects." On October 22, 2007, Daily Variety reported that Scorsese would reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio on a fourth picture, Shutter Island . Principal photography on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of
2466-693: A release in the winter of 2001 (to qualify for Academy Award nominations), Scorsese delayed the final production of the film until after the beginning of 2002; the studio consequently delayed the film until its release in the Oscar season of late 2002. Gangs of New York earned Scorsese his first Golden Globe for Best Director. In February 2003, Gangs of New York received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis; however, it did not win in any category. The following year, Scorsese completed production of The Blues , an expansive seven-part documentary tracing
2603-511: A second Golden Globe for Best Director, as well as a Critics' Choice Award, his first Directors Guild of America Award, and the Academy Award for Best Director. Presented with the latter, Scorsese poked fun at his track record of nominations, asking, "Could you double-check the envelope?" The award was presented by his longtime friends and colleagues Francis Ford Coppola , George Lucas and Steven Spielberg . The Departed also received
2740-439: A sequel to Bloody Mama . The came to become Boxcar Bertha . Corman also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron , and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with very little money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come with Mean Streets . Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make
2877-471: A soundtrack with contemporary music. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller and early Jean-Luc Godard . In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded,
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#17327719029743014-413: A static camera and long takes. Here the expressionism of his previous work gave way to moments of almost total surrealism . It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however. The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his 15 favorite films. Also, in 1983, Scorsese made
3151-637: A store that had one copy of the reel. He was one of only two people who regularly rented it; the other, George A. Romero , would also become a film director. Scorsese has named Sabu and Victor Mature as his favorite actors during his youth. He has also spoken of the influence of the 1947–48 Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes , whose innovative techniques later impacted his filmmaking. In his documentary titled A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies , Scorsese said that he
3288-521: Is a 3D adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick 's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret . The film stars Asa Butterfield , Chloë Grace Moretz , Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen , Ray Winstone , Emily Mortimer , Christopher Lee , and Jude Law . The film has been met with critical acclaim and earned Scorsese his third Golden Globe Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning five of them and becoming tied with Michel Hazanavicius 's film The Artist for
3425-482: Is a documentary film by Scorsese that tells of the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on American popular music and the culture of the 20th century. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; it focuses on his beginnings, his rise to fame in the 1960s, his then- controversial transformation from an acoustic guitar-based musician and performer to an electric guitar-influenced sound and his "retirement" from touring in 1966 following an infamous motorcycle accident. The film
3562-678: Is an American filmmaker. He emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He has received many accolades , including an Academy Award , four BAFTA Awards , three Emmy Awards , a Grammy Award , and three Golden Globe Awards . He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007,
3699-567: Is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam , suggested by its alternative title Viet '67 . Scorsese has mentioned on several occasions that he was greatly inspired in his early days at New York University by film professor Haig P. Manoogian . Scorsese's first professional job was when he was at NYU he was the assistant cameraman to cinematographer Baird Bryant on the John G. Avildsen directed short film Smiles (1964). Scorsese stated, "It
3836-447: Is as close to the kind of thing [Wilson] envisaged as it could conceivably be." The designer of the appearance of Library of America books is Bruce Campbell. When the first LOA volumes appeared in 1982, the "Book Design & Manufacturing" column of Publishers Weekly headlined that the series's physical appearance was "a triumph of the bookmaker's art". The LOA uses paper that meets guidelines for permanence originally set out by
3973-502: Is well-known for its compact primary source collections with their minimalist black covers. These collections have long been a trusty resource for historians, writers, and anyone else interested in a variety of historical and literary eras, especially the American founding and early republic." —Jeffrey J. Malanson, History: Reviews of New Books , 2017 The Library of America has received considerable praise for its endeavors. After
4110-402: Is where Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight). Thematically too,
4247-450: The Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture . The critical and financial success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York . This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure. The film
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4384-430: The 77th Academy Awards nominations, nominated in 11 categories including Best Picture. The film also garnered nominations in nearly all the other major categories, including a fifth Best Director nomination for Scorsese. Despite having the most nominations, the film won only five Oscars. Scorsese lost again, this time to director Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture). No Direction Home
4521-573: The Bradley Foundation to enable the two-volume The Debate on the Constitution set. The response to the series continued to grow over time; between 1993 and 1996, the publisher's frontlist sales doubled. By 1996, the Library of America was getting two-thirds of its sales via subscription programs and one-third through bookstores. While for a long time the series only published the works of authors who had passed on, this changed in
4658-600: The Catholic cemetery to conduct business, and took her Catholic customers to the Protestant cemetery; some in Farmington considered this woman beyond redemption. The article caused a sensation: The Boston Watch and Ward Society had the magazine banned . Mencken then journeyed to Boston, sold a copy of his magazine on Boston Common , and was arrested. Sales of the recently founded Mercury boomed, and Asbury became
4795-691: The Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967),
4932-506: The Civil War era was did not go unnoticed; one of the publisher's most ambitious later efforts, a multi-volume collection of first-person narratives, revolved around the same topic, as did such volumes as a collection of letters that Grant wrote to his wife Julia . The publisher aims to keep classics and notable historical and genre works in print permanently to preserve America's literary and cultural heritage. Previously, often only
5069-706: The Cox News Service , by the Los Angeles Times , and by a book prize committee . Newsweek magazine said in 2010 that "For three decades, the LOA has done a splendid job of making good on" its initial goals. Writing for the New York Times Book Review , the essayist and teacher William Deresiewicz has referred to the Library of America as "our quasi-official national canon". Indeed, whether an American writer has achieved
5206-747: The HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010), and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration , he founded three nonprofit organizations: The Film Foundation in 1990,
5343-538: The Honorary Academy Award during the Oscar telecast. In 1998, at the 70th Academy Awards , Scorsese presented the award to film legend Stanley Donen . When accepting the award Donen quipped, "Marty this is backwards, I should be giving this to you, believe me". In 1999, at the 71st Academy Awards , Scorsese and De Niro presented the award to film director Elia Kazan . This was a controversial pick for
5480-926: The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation , the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow , Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin , including selected writing of several U.S. presidents . Anthologies and works containing historical documents, criticism, and journalism are also published. Library of America volumes seek to print authoritative versions of works; include extensive notes, chronologies, and other back matter; and are known for their distinctive physical appearance and characteristics. The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ("La Pléiade") series published in France provided
5617-481: The Norton Critical Editions , Library of America volumes provide no introductory essays or critical examinations of the work involved. This is per Wilson's original design. At times this omission can lead to frustration based on the inability to know the basis upon which material for a volume was selected. Each volume also includes a chronology of the author's career or significant incidents in
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5754-1056: The Plug Uglies were actually a Baltimore-based gang. New York City newspapers compared the Dead Rabbits to the Baltimore Plug Uglies following the July 4, 1857, riots, which occurred just a month after Plug Ugly involvement in the Know-Nothing Riot in Washington, D.C. Asbury is credited with several crime-thriller screenplays for Columbia Pictures , which he co-wrote with Fred Niblo Jr (1903–1973): Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese ( / s k ɔːr ˈ s ɛ s i / skor- SESS -ee , Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se] ; born November 17, 1942)
5891-606: The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development ) in 1968, a year after the school was founded. While attending the Tisch School of the Arts, Scorsese made the short films What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which features Peter Bernuth. The film
6028-821: The World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017. Martin Charles Scorsese was born in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough on November 17, 1942. He grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood of the city's Manhattan borough. Both of his parents, Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese , worked in the Garment District . Charles
6165-424: The 1987 Michael Jackson music video " Bad ", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money , a sequel to the much admired Robert Rossen film The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman , which co-starred Tom Cruise . Although adhering to Scorsese's established style, The Color of Money was the director's first official foray into mainstream film-making. The film finally won actor Paul Newman an Oscar and gave Scorsese
6302-542: The 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing), Scorsese also served as an executive producer on the series. The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and ran for five seasons. Scorsese directed the three-and-a-half-hour documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World about the life and music of former Beatles ' member George Harrison , which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 and 6, 2011. His next film Hugo
6439-611: The 25th anniversary of the short titled, Bad 25 (2012). The short has been praised by critics as one of the most iconic and greatest videos of all time; Jackson's outfit has been cited as an influence on fashion. That year, he had signed a deal with upstart major The Walt Disney Studios to produce and direct features, following the success of The Color of Money . Looking past the controversy, The Last Temptation of Christ gained critical acclaim and remains an important work in Scorsese's canon: an explicit attempt to wrestle with
6576-505: The AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list (10th Anniversary Edition) and put Goodfellas at No. 2 on their list of the top 10 gangster films (after The Godfather ). In 1990, he released his only short-form documentary: Made in Milan about fashion designer Giorgio Armani . The following year brought Cape Fear , a remake of a cult 1962 movie of the same name and the director's seventh collaboration with De Niro. Another foray into
6713-496: The Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture of 2006, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing by longtime Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, her third win for a Scorsese film. Shine a Light captures rock and roll band The Rolling Stones ' performing at New York City's Beacon Theatre on October 29 and November 1, 2006, intercut with brief news and interview footage from throughout their career. The film
6850-670: The Broadway musical The Act , starring Liza Minnelli. The disappointing reception that New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage Scorsese had developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz , documenting the final concert by The Band . It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, and featured one of
6987-562: The Costume Design Oscar. This was his first collaboration with the Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis , with whom he would work again on Gangs of New York . This was Scorsese's first film to be shot on Super 35 format. Casino (1995), like The Age of Innocence before it, focused on a tightly wound male whose well-ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of unpredictable forces. The fact that it
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#17327719029747124-458: The Dead . Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-president Ronald Reagan . He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator). Taxi Driver won
7261-401: The LOA "would publish volumes of Paris Hilton 's and William Shatner 's memoirs, and possibly those of Jersey Shore ' s Snooki ." Images of the faux volumes were included. In his 2001 book Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future , LOA co-founder Jason Epstein , who by his own account had lost out in an internal power struggle and departed the venture, sharply criticized
7398-555: The LOA text of Richard Wright 's Native Son restored a number of passages that had been previously cut to make the work more palatable to the Book-of-the-Month Club . The LOA also commissioned a new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville 's Democracy in America by Arthur Goldhammer for their edition of the text. Library of America volumes of letters tend to be representative rather than exhaustive in terms of inclusion criteria. Unlike some other series such as
7535-458: The Library of America's finances and what he saw as the publication of unnecessary anthologies and authors whose qualifications for the series were suspect. He concluded: The Library of America has now published substantially all the work for which it was created and for which rights are available. Its obligation hereafter is to husband its resources so that this work remains in print and accessible to readers, and to ensure that funds are on hand for
7672-787: The Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini 's Paisà , which he first saw on television with his relatives who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, had a significant impact on his life. He acknowledges owing a great debt to the French New Wave and has stated that "the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not." He has also cited the works of Satyajit Ray , Ingmar Bergman , Andrzej Wajda , Michelangelo Antonioni , Federico Fellini , Ishirō Honda , and Eiji Tsuburaya as major influences on his career. Although there
7809-419: The United States, Inc. ) Publishers associated in some way with the creation include Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer , and Roger W. Straus Jr. The initial board of advisers included Robert Penn Warren , C. Vann Woodward , R. W. B. Lewis , Robert Coles , Irving Howe , and Eudora Welty . Funding at the start came from two sources, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation , in
7946-602: The academy due to Kazan's involvement with the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. Several members of the audience including Nick Nolte and Ed Harris refused to applaud Kazan when he received the award while others such as Warren Beatty , Meryl Streep , Kathy Bates , and Kurt Russell gave him a standing ovation. In 1999, Scorsese directed a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia , also known as My Voyage to Italy . The documentary foreshadowed
8083-654: The age of 71 from a chronic lung disease. The 2002 film Gangs of New York by director Martin Scorsese about the underworld and civil strife / riots among immigrant groups from the 1840s to the Civil War era revitalized interest in Asbury, and many of Asbury's works, mostly chronicling the largely hidden history of the seamier side of American popular culture, have been reissued. In 2008, The Library of America selected an excerpt from The Gangs of New York for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime . Although his books have long been popular within
8220-678: The angry and alienated Travis Bickle , and co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, with Harvey Keitel as her pimp. Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations between Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader , whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket , a film by the French director Robert Bresson . Writer–director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such as American Gigolo , Light Sleeper , and Scorsese's later Bringing Out
8357-451: The author's name, rendered in a fountain-pen-like hand, help give the clothbound volumes a timeless feel" — David Skinner , Humanities , 2015 Aaron remained in his position until 1985, and was responsible for navigating the shoals between the orthodoxies of literary criticism and a wider view of what the Library of America could publish. He was followed as president by executive director Hurley. In 2017, she retired as president and
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#17327719029748494-421: The best efforts Scorsese had brought to the screen since 1990's Goodfellas , and still others putting it at the same level as Scorsese's most celebrated classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull . With domestic box office receipts surpassing US$ 129.4 million, The Departed was Scorsese's highest-grossing film (not accounting for inflation) until 2010's Shutter Island . The Departed earned Scorsese
8631-459: The best-known works of an author remained in print, as exemplified by Stephen Crane , whose novels and short stories were but whose poetry and journalism were not. As LOA chief executive Cheryl Hurley stated in 2001, "We're not only a publisher, we're a cultural institution." Although the LOA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually, with the original seed money having run out, the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet
8768-541: The book was to him rather than the traditional academic adaptations of literary works. To this end, Scorsese sought influence from diverse period films that had had an emotional impact on him. In Scorsese on Scorsese , he documents influences from films such as Luchino Visconti 's Senso and his Il Gattopardo ( The Leopard ) as well as Orson Welles 's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV ( The Taking of Power by Louis XIV ). Although The Age of Innocence
8905-541: The book while they were filming Boxcar Bertha . The film was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to start, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate . (In the 1988 version, these roles were played by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie respectively.) However, following his mid-1980s flirtation with commercial Hollywood, Scorsese made
9042-409: The case of the anthology volumes. Indeed, Library of America volumes are noted for their chronologies; The New York Times has called them "predictably superb". The author and journalist Gloria Emerson 's review of the Reporting World War II volumes notes that they include "an excellent chronology of the war". The poet and literary critic Stephen Yenser , in reviewing of volume about the work of
9179-399: The clout to finally secure backing for a project that had been a longtime goal for him: The Last Temptation of Christ . In 1983, Scorsese began work on this long-cherished personal project. The Last Temptation of Christ , based on the 1955 novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis , retold the life of Christ in human rather than divine terms. Barbara Hershey recalls introducing Scorsese to
9316-510: The cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver . A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile health. Scorsese helped provide footage for the documentary Elvis on Tour . By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded him to kick his cocaine addiction to make his highly regarded film Raging Bull . Writing for The New Yorker in March 2000, Mark Singer summarized Scorsese's condition stating: He (Scorsese)
9453-419: The company. Scorsese also produced several documentaries, such as The Soul of a Man (directed by Wim Wenders) and Lightning in a Bottle (directed by Antoine Fuqua ). Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004) is a lavish, large-scale biopic of eccentric aviation pioneer and film mogul Howard Hughes and reunited Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film received highly positive reviews. The film
9590-503: The concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver : insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption. Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets ), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was rewritten several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York ). The final draft
9727-419: The costs of preparing, marketing, manufacturing, and maintaining its books. In one large form of donation, as of 2001 a $ 50,000 contribution could sponsor a particular book being kept in print. Some books published as additions to the series are not kept in print in perpetuity. Library of America volumes are prepared and edited by recognized scholars on the subject. Notes on the text are normally included and
9864-401: The degree to which the preservation of American literature was in peril and the degree to which the Library of America was saving it. The LOA has been satirized by the essayist Arthur Krystal as "confer[ing] value on writers by encasing their work in handsome black-jacketed covers with a stripe of red, white, and blue on the spine." The oft-perceived requirement that writers have passed from
10001-496: The director as iconoclast. In the preface to this documentary, Scorsese states his commitment to the "Director's Dilemma", in which a successful contemporary director must be pragmatic about the realities of getting financing for films of personal esthetic interest by accepting the need of "making one film for the studio, and (then) making one for oneself." If The Age of Innocence alienated and confused some fans, then Kundun (1997) went several steps further, offering an account of
10138-406: The director's next project, the epic Gangs of New York (2002), influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors such as Luchino Visconti and filmed in its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios. With a production budget said to be in excess of $ 100 million, Gangs of New York was Scorsese's biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date. Like The Age of Innocence , it
10275-583: The early life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama , the People's Liberation Army 's entry into Tibet , and the Dalai Lama's subsequent exile to India. Not only a departure in subject matter, Kundun saw Scorsese employing a fresh narrative and visual approach. Traditional dramatic devices were substituted for a trance-like meditation achieved through an elaborate tableau of colorful visual images. The film
10412-409: The film a mixed review, while praising Scorsese's short as "really successful". After a decade of films considered by critics to be mixed results, some considered Scorsese's gangster epic Goodfellas (1990) his return to directorial form, and his most confident and fully realized film since Raging Bull . De Niro and Joe Pesci offered a virtuoso display of Scorsese's bravura cinematic technique in
10549-539: The film and re-established, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released, Roger Ebert , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ever". It is ranked No. 1 on Ebert's movie list for 1990, along with those of Gene Siskel and Peter Travers ', and is widely considered one of the director's greatest achievements. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Scorsese earned his third Best Director nomination but again lost to
10686-469: The film is regarded positively by some critics. Richard Brody in The New Yorker wrote: For Scorsese, a lifelong cinephile, the essence of New York could be found in its depiction in classic Hollywood movies. Remarkably, his backward-looking tribute to the golden age of musicals and noirish romantic melodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films. In 1977, he directed
10823-674: The film remains an anomaly in the director's early career as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican , a documentary featuring his parents Charles and Catherine Scorsese. Scorsese followed with Taxi Driver in 1976, which depicted a Vietnam veteran who takes the law into his own hands on New York's crime-ridden streets. The film established him as an accomplished filmmaker and also brought attention to cinematographer Michael Chapman , whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors, and complex camera movements. The film starred Robert De Niro as
10960-447: The film, writing, "'I Call First' brings these two kinds of films together into a work that is absolutely genuine, artistically satisfying and technically comparable to the best films being made anywhere. I have no reservations in describing it as a great moment in American movies." Scorsese became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Brian De Palma , Francis Ford Coppola , George Lucas , and Steven Spielberg . It
11097-481: The films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects. Championed by influential film critic Pauline Kael , Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing and
11234-503: The first time Scorsese used wide-screen Panavision with an aspect ratio of 2.39:1. In 1990, Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa . Scorsese's 1994 cameo appearance in the Robert Redford film Quiz Show is remembered for the telling line: "You see, the audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch
11371-734: The following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio , including the films Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Scorsese's other films include After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). In addition to film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series including
11508-558: The foreign film ( Con gli occhi chiusi ( With Closed Eyes )). The Age of Innocence (1993) was a significant departure for Scorsese, a period adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel about the constrictive high society of late-19th century New York. It was highly lauded by critics upon its original release but was a box office bomb , making an overall loss. As noted in Scorsese on Scorsese by editor–interviewer Ian Christie,
11645-502: The four-hour documentary, Scorsese lists the four aspects of the director he believes are the most important as (1) the director as storyteller; (2) the director as an illusionist: D. W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on; (3) the director as a smuggler—filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk , Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli , who used to hide subversive messages in their films; and (4)
11782-733: The history of blues music from its African roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood , Mike Figgis , and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90-minute film (Scorsese's entry was titled Feel Like Going Home ). In the early 2000s, Scorsese produced several films for up-and-coming directors, such as You Can Count on Me (directed by Kenneth Lonergan ), Rain (directed by Katherine Lindberg), Lymelife (directed by Derick Martini ) and The Young Victoria (directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ). At that time, he established Sikelia Productions . In 2003, producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff joined
11919-417: The initial series were published, the critic Charles Champlin wrote that "The volumes in the series are in fact marvels of scholarship, unobtrusively displayed, and a prime effort has been to work from the text that reflects the author's final word." The aforementioned poet and critic Stephen Yenser has called the Library of America "invaluable"; that same term has been used to describe Library of America by
12056-445: The late 1990s when Eudora Welty was published, soon to be followed by Philip Roth . Similarly, the rule that authors had to be American-born was later relaxed when Vladimir Nabokov was added to the list. While a nonprofit entity, the Library has not been immune to commercial considerations, often going further into genre works such as detective fiction and science fiction than some of its founders would have imagined. Besides
12193-421: The long series of proposals and discussions that led up to the creation of the Library of America. Another founder was the textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle ; he too had been involved in the discussions prior to creation, and after that he chaired the committee that was the arbiter of LOA textual policy. "Its black dust jackets with an image of the author and a simple red, white, and blue stripe running below
12330-418: The long term, however, it appears Kundun has been sidelined in most critical appraisals of the director, mostly noted as a stylistic and thematic detour. Kundun was the Scorsese's second attempt to profile the life of a great religious leader, following The Last Temptation of Christ . Bringing Out the Dead (1999) was a return to familiar territory, with the director and writer Paul Schrader constructing
12467-440: The main series have the same trim size , 4 + 7 / 8 inches (120 mm) by 7 + 7 / 8 inches (200 mm), dimensions that are based on the golden section . The weight of each volume is around 2 pounds (0.9 kg). For the hardcover editions, the binding cloth is woven rayon , and the books are Smyth-sewn . Each includes a ribbon bookmark . Pages in the books will lie flat when open. The uniform typeface
12604-662: The mainstream, the film was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Laughton 's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical reception and was lambasted in many quarters for its scenes depicting misogynistic violence. However, the lurid subject matter gave Scorsese a chance to experiment with visual tricks and effects. The film garnered two Oscar nominations. Earning $ 80 million domestically, it stood as Scorsese's most commercially successful release until The Aviator (2004), and then The Departed (2006). The film also marked
12741-549: The model for the LOA, which was long a dream of critic and author Edmund Wilson . During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a long saga of rival literary outfits attempting to assemble and finding funding for much the same thing. The founding of the Library of America took place in 1979, with the creation of an entity known as Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (This remains the entity under which LOA notes, chronologies, and other auxiliary materials are copyrighted; and, officially, employees work for Literary Classics of
12878-506: The money." In 1994, Scorsese and producer Barbara De Fina formed the production company De Fina-Cappa. In the early 1990s, Scorsese also expanded his role as a film producer. He produced a wide range of films, including major Hollywood studio productions ( Mad Dog and Glory , Clockers ), low-budget independent films ( The Grifters , Naked in New York , Grace of My Heart , Search and Destroy , The Hi-Lo Country ), and even
13015-402: The most Academy Awards won by a single film in 2011. Hugo also won two BAFTA awards, among numerous other awards and nominations . Hugo was Scorsese's first 3D film and was released in the United States on November 23, 2011. The Library of America The Library of America ( LOA ) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature . Founded in 1979 with seed money from
13152-457: The most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Bob Dylan , Neil Young , Ringo Starr , Muddy Waters , Joni Mitchell , Van Morrison , Paul Butterfield , Neil Diamond , Ronnie Wood , and Eric Clapton . However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978. Another Scorsese-directed documentary, titled American Boy , also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince,
13289-429: The news that Scorsese wanted to make a film about a failed 19th-century romance raised many eyebrows among the film fraternity; all the more when Scorsese made it clear that it was a personal project and not a studio for-hire job. Scorsese was interested in doing a "romantic piece", and he was strongly drawn to the characters and the story of Wharton's text. Scorsese wanted his film to be as rich an emotional experience as
13426-404: The poet Elizabeth Bishop , noted that the chronology was "so packed with pertinent details it amounts to a mini-biography". The notes and chronologies are often put together by LOA staff members and in some cases have informed the perspective of the guest editors working on the volume in question. LOA staff have also sometimes helped scholars working on related projects. "The Library of America
13563-455: The publication of twentieth-century writers as rights permit. What Edmund Wilson would think of the series as it has evolved is unknowable, but writing for The Antioch Review in 1986, the fellow Paul M. Wright ventures that "We might reasonably infer that he would be pleased but not, I think, entirely pleased." Less reservedly, the editor and commentator Norman Podhoretz , writing for Commentary in 1992, said that "the Library of America
13700-425: The reviews for the film they tallied were positive and summarizing the critics writing, "Though flawed, the sprawling, messy Gangs of New York is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance." The film's central themes are consistent with the director's established concerns: New York, violence as culturally endemic, and subcultural divisions down ethnic lines. Originally filmed for
13837-549: The same name by Dennis Lehane , began in Massachusetts in March 2008. In December 2007, actors Mark Ruffalo , Max von Sydow , Ben Kingsley , and Michelle Williams joined the cast, marking the first time these actors had worked with Scorsese. The film was released on February 19, 2010. On May 20, 2010, Shutter Island became Scorsese's highest-grossing film. In 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Scorsese
13974-483: The scene led to one wry comment that "one sympathizes with the directors of a publishing venture increasingly dependent on the idea that great American writers just can't die fast enough." The series even prompted a mocking poem that began: It's like heaven: you've got to die To get there. And you can't be sure. The publisher might go out of business. In an April Fools' Day swipe at the Library of America's selection standards, another satirical piece proclaimed that
14111-410: The source texts identified; these notes have been called "fascinating in themselves". This is part of the extensive back matter typically included with each volume, behind which large amounts of research and scholarship are conducted. Efforts are made to correct errors and omissions in previous editions and create a definitive version of the material. For instance, under the guidance of Bercovitch,
14248-507: The spirituality underpinning his films up until that point. The director went on to receive his second nomination for a Best Director Academy Award (again unsuccessfully, this time losing to Barry Levinson for Rain Man ). As a separate film project, and along with directors Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola in 1989, Scorsese provided one of three segments in the portmanteau film New York Stories , called "Life Lessons". Roger Ebert 's gave
14385-558: The total amount of $ 1.8 million. The initial president of the new entity was the American academic Daniel Aaron , who had been a friend of Wilson's since the 1950s. The executive director was Cheryl Hurley, who had worked at the Modern Language Association . Other founding officers included the literary critic Richard Poirier , as vice president, and the publisher Jason Epstein , as treasurer. Epstein, and later Aaron and Poirier, had all been involved in
14522-554: The true crime genre, commentators such as Lucy Sante , Tyler Anbinder and Tracy Melton have suggested that Asbury took journalistic liberties with his material. However, Asbury's books generally feature lengthy bibliographies, noting the newspapers, books, pamphlets , police reports and personal interviews he drew upon for his works. Most are footnoted, citing source material by publication title, date and page. In 2005, Tracy Melton claimed in his book Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854–1860 that
14659-833: The violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta , calling it a kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, Best Supporting Actress for Cathy Moriarty , Best Supporting Actor for Joe Pesci , and Scorsese's first for Best Director . De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but Best Director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People . From this work onwards, Scorsese's films are always labeled as "A Martin Scorsese Picture" on promotional material. Raging Bull , filmed in high contrast black and white,
14796-549: The works of many individual writers, the series includes anthologies such as (in a different format from the above illustration) Writing Los Angeles . The Library of America introduced coverage of American journalism with the 1995 two-volume set Reporting World War II , which not only garnered positive reviews, but soon became one of the publisher's five best-selling offerings to that point, the others being volumes about Abraham Lincoln , Ulysses S. Grant , William Tecumseh Sherman , and Walt Whitman . That those others all concerned
14933-596: Was Francis Asbury , the first bishop of the Methodist Church to be ordained in the United States. When he was in his early teens, he and his siblings Mary, Emmett and Fred Asbury became disenchanted with the local Southern Methodist church. During World War I , Asbury enlisted as a private in the United States Army . He was later promoted to sergeant and then to second lieutenant . He served in France until his lungs were severely damaged in
15070-444: Was De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro . During this period, Scorsese worked as the assistant director and one of the editors on the documentary Woodstock (1970) and met actor–director John Cassavetes , who became a close friend and mentor. Scorsese met Roger Corman after coming to Hollywood to edit Medicine Ball Caravan and Corman, who had seen and liked Who's That Knocking at My Door , asked Scorsese to make
15207-407: Was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver , which starred Robert De Niro , who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980) The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), and The Irishman (2019). In
15344-475: Was a clothes presser and actor, while Catherine was a seamstress and an actress. All four of Scorsese's grandparents were Italian immigrants from Sicily , hailing from Polizzi Generosa on his father's side and Ciminna on his mother's side. The original surname of the family was Scozzese, meaning "Scot" or "Scottish" in Italian, and was later changed to Scorsese because of a transcription error. Scorsese
15481-456: Was a source of turmoil for its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures , which was planning significant expansion into the Chinese market at the time. Initially defiant in the face of pressure from Chinese officials, Disney has since distanced itself from the project, hurting Kundun ' s commercial profile. In the short term, the sheer eclecticism in evidence enhanced the director's reputation. In
15618-447: Was a violent gangster film made it more palatable to the director's fans who perhaps were baffled by the apparent departure of the earlier film. Casino was a box office success, and it received generally positive notices from critics. Comparisons were drawn to his earlier film Goodfellas , and Scorsese admitted Casino bore a superficial resemblance to it, but he maintained that the story was significantly larger in scope. Sharon Stone
15755-413: Was a widespread box office success and gained Academy recognition. The Aviator was nominated for six Golden Globe awards , including Best Motion Picture-Drama , Best Director , Best Screenplay , and Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama for Leonardo DiCaprio. It won three, including Best Motion Picture-Drama and Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama. In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated film of
15892-629: Was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival . In the 1970s and 1980s decades, Scorsese's films , much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism , and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames , graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity . His 1973 crime film Mean Streets
16029-418: Was also involved in screenwriting and wrote several plays which appeared on Broadway . None was successful. Asbury married Edith Evans Asbury in 1945, a journalist ultimately employed by The New York Times , where she spent most of her career as a reporter. After his final book, The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition in 1950, he retired from writing. Asbury died on February 24, 1963, at
16166-652: Was enamored of historical epics in his adolescence, and at least two films of the genre, Land of the Pharaohs and El Cid , appear to have had a deep and lasting impact on his cinematic psyche. Scorsese also developed an admiration for neorealist cinema at this time. He recounted its influence in a documentary on Italian neorealism , and commented on how Bicycle Thieves , Rome, Open City and especially Paisà inspired him and influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian roots. In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia ( My Voyage to Italy ), Scorsese noted that
16303-702: Was first presented on television in both the United States (as part of the PBS American Masters series) and the United Kingdom (as part of the BBC Two Arena series) on September 26 to 27, 2005. A DVD version of the film was released the same month. The film won a Peabody Award and the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video . In addition, Scorsese received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for
16440-444: Was followed in 2018 by John Kulka, who was given the title of editorial director. The first volumes were published in 1982, ten years after Wilson's death. They were priced moderately. The launch was accompanied by considerable amounts of publicity. Public response was in terms of sales positive from the beginning; by 1986, the non-profit was breaking even, although it accepted special grants for specific projects, such as one from
16577-452: Was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy (1983). It is a satire on the world of media and celebrity, whose central character is a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act ( kidnapping ). The film was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed previously, often using
16714-406: Was initially scheduled for release on September 21, 2007, but Paramount Classics postponed its general release until April 2008. Its world premiere was at the opening of the 58th Berlinale Film Festival on February 7, 2008. "Marty did an amazing job of making us look great..." observed drummer Charlie Watts . "It's all in the edits and the cuts. That's a movie maker rather than a guy just shooting
16851-567: Was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro. The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the number one American sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films . In 1997, the Institute ranked Raging Bull as the twenty-fourth greatest film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. In 2007, they ranked Raging Bull as the fourth greatest film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. Scorsese's next project
16988-482: Was later adapted for film as Martin Scorsese 's Gangs of New York (2002). However, the film adaptation of Gangs of New York was so loose that Gangs was nominated for "Best Original Screenplay" rather than as a screenplay adapted from another work. Born in Farmington, Missouri , he was raised in a highly religious family which included several generations of devout Methodist preachers. His great-great uncle
17125-463: Was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door , with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker , both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical J. R. Trilogy, which would have included a later film, Mean Streets . Film critic Roger Ebert saw the film at the 1967 Chicago International Film Festival and in his review praised Scorsese and
17262-556: Was more than mildly depressed. Drug abuse, and abuse of his body in general, culminated in a terrifying episode of internal bleeding. Robert De Niro came to see him in the hospital and asked, in so many words, whether he wanted to live or die. If you want to live, De Niro proposed, let's make this picture—referring to Raging Bull , an as-told-to book by Jake LaMotta, the former world middleweight boxing champion, that De Niro had given him to read years earlier. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making
17399-600: Was no habit of reading at home, towards the end of the 1950s, Scorsese began to approach literature, being marked in particular by The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky . Scorsese attended the all-boys Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, graduating in 1960. He had initially desired to become
17536-598: Was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. During the filming, Scorsese played a background part as a gambler at one of the tables. Scorsese still found time for a four-hour documentary in 1995, titled A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies , offering a thorough trek through American cinema. It covered the silent era to 1969, a year after which Scorsese began his feature career. He said, "I wouldn't feel right commenting on myself or my contemporaries." In
17673-424: Was raised in a predominantly Catholic environment. As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or take part in any activities with other children, so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his life that he developed a passion for cinema. As a teenager in the Bronx , he frequently rented Powell and Pressburger 's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) from
17810-440: Was really important because they were filming on 35mm". He stated he was terrible at the job because he could not judge the distance of the focus. He also worked as a gaffer for Albert and David Maysles and as an editor for CBS News , the later of whom offered him a full time position but Scorsese declined due to his pursuit in film. In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First , which
17947-458: Was released on TV in September 2010. Scorsese directed the series premiere for Boardwalk Empire , an HBO drama series, starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt , based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City . Terence Winter , who wrote for The Sopranos , created the series. In addition to directing the pilot (for which he won
18084-454: Was replaced by Max Rudin, who was already the entity's publisher. Hanna M. "Gila" Bercovitch served as founding editor, senior editor, and then editor-in-chief until her death in 1997. Upon her passing, Henry Louis Gates said that "It is hard to find anyone who has been more central to institutionalizing the canon of American literature." She was followed as editor-in-chief by the poet and critic Geoffrey O'Brien . He retired in 2017, and
18221-465: Was set in 19th-century New York, although focusing on the other end of the social scale (and like that film, also starring Daniel Day-Lewis). The film marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio , who became a fixture in later Scorsese films. The production was highly troubled, with many rumors referring to the director's conflict with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein . Despite denials of artistic compromise, some felt that it
18358-511: Was supporting the David Lynch Foundation 's initiative to help 10,000 military veterans overcome posttraumatic stress disorder through Transcendental Meditation ; Scorsese has publicly discussed his own practice of TM. Scorsese directed a television commercial for Chanel 's then-new men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel , starring French actor Gaspard Ulliel . Filmed in New York City, it debuted online on August 25, 2010, and
18495-451: Was the director's most conventional film, featuring standard film tropes that the director had traditionally avoided, such as characters existing purely for exposition purposes and explanatory flashbacks . The final cut of the movie ran to 168 minutes, while the director's original cut was over 180 minutes long. Even so, the film received generally positive reviews with the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 75 percent of
18632-405: Was the director's third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli . The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra . Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison with his earlier work. Despite its weak reception,
18769-593: Was ultimately different from these films in terms of narrative, story, and thematic concern, the presence of a lost society, of lost values as well as detailed re-creations of social customs and rituals continues the tradition of these films. It came back into the public eye, especially in countries such as the UK and France, but still is largely neglected in North America. The film earned five Academy Award nominations (including Best Adapted Screenplay for Scorsese), winning
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