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128-554: Paul Joseph Schrader ( / ˈ ʃ r eɪ d ər / ; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese 's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also worked extensively as
256-551: 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
384-559: 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
512-459: A "politically correct rejiggering", with its selection of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as the greatest film of all time being the product of "distorted woke reappraisal". In 2023, he also criticized the politicization of the 95th Academy Awards , writing that the Oscars' "scramble to be woke" have made their ceremony "mean less each year". In 2012, Schrader participated in
640-689: 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
768-400: 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
896-505: 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
1024-422: A cocaine addiction, which contributed to his divorce from his first wife, art director Jeannine Oppewall . He then moved from Los Angeles to Japan in hopes of getting his life on track, finally quitting drugs around 1990. His second marriage is to actress Mary Beth Hurt , who has appeared in smaller roles in a variety of his films. Together they have two children, a daughter and a son. In September 2022, Schrader
1152-511: A director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis . Raised in
1280-597: 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
1408-686: A generally negative reaction. After that, Schrader filmed The Walker (2007), starring Woody Harrelson as a male escort caught up in a political murder enquiry, and the Israel-set Adam Resurrected (2008), which stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe . Schrader headed the International Jury of the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival and in 2011 became a jury member for the ongoing Filmaka short film contest. On July 2, 2009, Schrader
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#17327797385471536-545: A lasting impression on Schrader are John Ford , Jean Renoir , Roberto Rossellini , Alfred Hitchcock , and Sam Peckinpah . Renoir's The Rules of the Game he called the "quintessential movie" which represents "all of the cinema". In 1974, Schrader and his brother Leonard co-wrote The Yakuza , a film set in the Japanese crime world. The script became the subject of a bidding war, eventually selling for $ 325,000. The film
1664-621: A loose trilogy with another thriller, Master Gardener , starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver . Like the rest of the trilogy, it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022, where Schrader was awarded the Golden Lion Honorary Award . In 2023, it was confirmed Schrader would write and direct Oh, Canada , an adaptation of his friend Russell Banks ' novel, Foregone , starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi . Additionally, Schrader has written
1792-568: A loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022). Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan , the son of Joan ( née Fisher) and Charles A. Schrader, an executive. Schrader's family attended the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church . Schrader's mother was of Dutch descent, the daughter of emigrants from Friesland , while Schrader's paternal grandfather
1920-409: 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
2048-491: 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
2176-600: 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
2304-574: 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
2432-472: 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
2560-693: 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
2688-509: A room" stories. The protagonist in each film changes from an angry, then narcissistic, later anxious character, to a person who hides behind a mask of superficiality. Although many of his films or scripts are based on real-life biographies (Raging Bull , Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters , Patty Hearst , Auto Focus) , Schrader confessed having problems with biographical films due to their altering of actual events, which he tried to prevent by imposing structures and stylization. Schrader battled
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#17327797385472816-511: 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
2944-439: 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
3072-471: 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,
3200-413: 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
3328-637: 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
3456-693: A strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael . He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before transitioning to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films, beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader ). Schrader has described three of his recent films as
3584-695: A western called Three Guns at Dawn, for Antoine Fuqua to direct; a drama about a trauma nurse called R.N for Elisabeth Moss to star in and direct; and an untitled script about a sex addict. Schrader has written two stage plays, Berlinale and Cleopatra Club . The latter saw its premiere at the Powerhouse Theater in Poughkeepsie , New York , in 1995 and its foreign language debut in Vienna in 2011. A recurring theme in Schrader's films
3712-521: 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
3840-482: 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
3968-678: 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,
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4096-567: 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
4224-412: Is the protagonist on a self-destructive path, or undertaking actions which work against himself, deliberately or subconsciously. The finale often bears an element of redemption, preceded by a painful sacrifice or cathartic act of violence. Schrader has repeatedly referred to Taxi Driver , American Gigolo , Light Sleeper , The Canyons , The Walker , First Reformed , and The Card Counter as "a man in
4352-402: 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,
4480-450: 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
4608-610: The Sight & Sound film polls of that year. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Schrader gave the following ten in alphabetical order. In 2022, Schrader updated his list, including: Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese ( / s k ɔːr ˈ s ɛ s i / skor- SESS -ee , Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se] ; born November 17, 1942)
4736-430: 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
4864-731: The Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film on March 18, 2005, as Exorcist: The Original Prequel . Due to extreme interest in Schrader's version from critics and cinephiles alike, Warner Bros. agreed to give the film a limited theatrical release later that year under the title Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist . The film was only shown on 110 screens around the United States and made just $ 251,000. The critics liked Schrader's version much better than Harlin's. However, Schrader's film ultimately met with
4992-691: 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),
5120-747: 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,
5248-538: 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
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5376-477: The Ian McEwan novel, and Light Sleeper (1992), a sympathetic study of a drug dealer vying for a normal life. In 2005, Schrader described Light Sleeper as his "most personal" film. In 1997, he made Touch (1997), based on an Elmore Leonard novel about a young man seemingly able to cure the sick by the laying on of hands. In 1998, Schrader won critical acclaim for the drama Affliction . The film tells
5504-606: The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America . In 2002, he directed the acclaimed biopic Auto Focus , based on the life and murder of Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane . In 2003, Schrader made entertainment headlines after being fired from The Exorcist: Dominion , a prequel film to the horror classic The Exorcist from 1973. The film's production companies Morgan Creek Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures intensely disliked
5632-606: 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
5760-821: 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
5888-424: 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
6016-479: 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
6144-413: The 2017 Venice Film Festival and received critical acclaim. Schrader received his first Academy Award nomination for the film in the category Best Original Screenplay . In 2021, he directed the crime drama film The Card Counter , starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish . The film also premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and was widely lauded by critics. Schrader grouped these two films into
6272-555: 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
6400-505: 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
6528-496: 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
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#17327797385476656-670: 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
6784-562: 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
6912-541: The Country , which he saw sometime later, had quite some effect on him. Schrader attributes his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie-making to his having no adolescent movie memories. Schrader earned his B.A. in philosophy with a minor in theology from Calvin College but decided against becoming a minister. He then earned an M.A. in film studies at the UCLA Film School upon
7040-407: 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
7168-573: The Light , an espionage thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a government agent suffering from a deadly disease, Anton Yelchin and Irène Jacob . In post-production Schrader was denied final cut by the film's producers. The film was negatively received by many film critics and was a box-office bomb . Schrader later recut Dying of the Light into the separate, more experimental work Dark , which received more positive reviews. Schrader's dramatic thriller First Reformed , starring Ethan Hawke , premiered at
7296-787: 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
7424-463: The Third Kind (1977), but Spielberg disliked the script, calling it "terribly guilt-ridden", and opted for something lighter. He also wrote an early draft of Rolling Thunder (1977), which the film's producers had reworked without his participation. He disapproved of the final film. Schrader's script about an obsessed New York City taxi driver became Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver , which
7552-602: 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
7680-678: 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
7808-421: 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
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#17327797385477936-412: The birth of his children. As of 2018, he attends a Presbyterian church. His films frequently feature religious themes. However, Schrader has now emphasized that he considers himself to be just a Christian. In December 2016, Schrader referred to the then-upcoming Trump presidency as "a call to violence" and said "we should be willing to take arms. Like Old John Brown ." He quickly deleted the post, but
8064-541: 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
8192-609: 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
8320-440: The character of George C. Scott , which was based on Schrader's father. Among Paul Schrader's films in the 1980s were American Gigolo starring Richard Gere (1980), his Cat People (1982) a remake of the 1942 film Cat People , and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985). Inspired by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima , the film interweaves episodes from Mishima's life with dramatizations of segments from his books. Mishima
8448-399: 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
8576-621: 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)
8704-419: 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
8832-503: 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
8960-496: 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
9088-406: 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
9216-583: 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
9344-423: The film Schrader had made. Director Renny Harlin was hired to re-shoot nearly the entire movie, which was released as Exorcist: The Beginning on August 20, 2004, to disastrously negative reviews and embarrassing box office receipts. Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek put over $ 80 million into the endeavor, and Harlin's film only made back $ 41 million domestically. Schrader's version of the film eventually premiered at
9472-409: 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
9600-539: 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
9728-496: The film as challenging to make, because of the artistic and personal tensions between him and the cast. During principal photography, he suffered an on-set mental collapse, which led him to reconsider his career seriously. John Milius acted as executive producer on the following year's Hardcore , again written by Schrader, a film with many autobiographical parallels in his depiction of the Calvinist milieu of Grand Rapids, and in
9856-469: 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
9984-674: 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
10112-503: 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
10240-481: 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
10368-503: 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
10496-734: 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
10624-558: 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,
10752-502: 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)
10880-733: 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
11008-418: 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
11136-662: 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
11264-506: 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
11392-457: 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,
11520-429: 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
11648-481: The recommendation of Pauline Kael , who encouraged him to be a film critic. Schrader first became a film critic , writing for the Los Angeles Free Press and later for Cinema magazine. His book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer , which examines the similarities between Robert Bresson , Yasujirō Ozu , and Carl Theodor Dreyer , was published in 1972. Other film-makers who made
11776-425: 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
11904-497: 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
12032-507: 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
12160-508: The story of a troubled small-town policeman ( Nick Nolte ) who becomes obsessed with solving the mystery behind a fatal hunting accident. Schrader's script was based on the novel by Russell Banks . The film was nominated for multiple awards, including two Academy Awards for acting (for Nolte and James Coburn ). Schrader received the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award the same year. In 1999, Schrader received
12288-833: 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,
12416-444: 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
12544-407: 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
12672-475: 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
12800-456: 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
12928-447: 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
13056-413: 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
13184-629: 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
13312-740: Was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting award at the ScreenLit Festival in Nottingham , England . Several of his films were shown at the festival, including Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters , which followed the presentation of the award by director Shane Meadows . After five years of trying and failing to find funding to make feature films, Schrader returned with The Canyons (2013), an erotic dramatic thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and adult-film star James Deen . The film
13440-423: Was directed by Sydney Pollack and starred Robert Mitchum . Robert Towne , best known for Chinatown , also received a credit for his rewrite. Although The Yakuza failed commercially, it brought Schrader to the attention of the new generation of Hollywood directors. In 1975, he wrote the script for Obsession for Brian De Palma . Schrader wrote an early draft of Steven Spielberg 's Close Encounters of
13568-652: 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
13696-702: 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
13824-410: Was from a German family that had come to the U.S. through Canada. His early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old when he was able to sneak away from home. In an interview, he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in
13952-452: 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
14080-502: Was hospitalized for "breathing problems". In January 2023, he and his wife moved from New York's suburban Putnam County to a luxury assisted-living facility in Manhattan's Hudson Yards area, where Hurt receives treatment for her worsening Alzheimer's . Schrader is a Christian . Raised Calvinist , Schrader abandoned religion in his young adulthood, before returning to Christianity later in life. He became an Episcopalian after
14208-406: 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
14336-567: 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
14464-463: 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
14592-556: 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
14720-600: 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
14848-598: 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
14976-809: Was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . Besides Taxi Driver (1976), Scorsese also drew on scripts by Schrader for the boxing tale Raging Bull (1980), co-written with Mardik Martin , The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Thanks partly to critical acclaim for Taxi Driver , Schrader was able to direct his first feature, Blue Collar (1978), co-written with his brother Leonard. Blue Collar features Richard Pryor , Harvey Keitel , and Yaphet Kotto as car factory workers attempting to escape their socio-economic rut through theft and blackmail . He has described
15104-558: Was nominated for the top prize (the Palme d'Or ) at the Cannes Film Festival . Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers. Schrader also directed Patty Hearst (1988), about the kidnapping and transformation of the Hearst Corporation heiress . In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival . His 1990s work included the travelers-in-Venice tale The Comfort of Strangers (1990), adapted by Harold Pinter from
15232-601: Was one of the first films to use the website Kickstarter to crowd-source its funding. Schrader also used the website Let It Cast to have unknown actors submit their audition tapes over the internet. American Apparel provided some wardrobe for the film. The film was ultimately made for just $ 250,000 and had a limited theatrical release from IFC Films on August 2, 2013. The film was poorly received by general critics and audiences. The film only made $ 56,000 in theaters but found later success when released on various Video on Demand platforms. In 2014, Schrader directed The Dying of
15360-424: 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
15488-440: 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
15616-458: 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
15744-465: 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
15872-511: 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
16000-451: 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
16128-405: 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,
16256-593: 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
16384-667: Was visited by the New York City Police Department Counterterrorism Bureau for threatening violence. Schrader expressed some regret for his post (blaming it on him drinking alcohol and taking an Ambien ), apologizing for his post's violent rhetoric, but not for his comments critical of Trump. In 2021, Schrader attacked cancel culture , describing it as "infectious...like the Delta virus ". In 2022, Schrader criticized that year's Sight and Sound Greatest Films poll , describing it as
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