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Martin Scorsese

Birth date: 17.11.1942

After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style: New York settings, loners struggling with inner demons, pointed-shoes rock-meets-opera soundtracks and unrelenting cathartic violence. "Mean Streets" also featured Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, two actors who would help shape that style. After Scorsese directed Ellen Burstyn to a Best Actress Oscar in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), the trio was reunited for the dark journey of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976). The film achieved additional notoriety five years after its release when Bickle's (De Niro) concern for a teenaged hooker played by Jodie Foster inspired John Hinckley's assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. After New York, New York (1977) (which one critic described as a wife-abuse musical) and The Last Waltz (1978), Scorsese released Raging Bull (1980). The biography of middleweight fighter Jake LaMotta earned two Oscars (Actor - DeNiro, Editing - Thelma Schoonmaker) and was later selected as the best film of the decade by U.S. critic gods Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Scorsese then explored fans as pariah ( The King of Comedy (1983)), dark-comic dreams ( After Hours (1985)), and revisited pool shark Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961) ( The Color of Money (1986) with Paul Newman). Scorsese outraged some religious groups by attempting to portray a human son of God in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) before returning to more familiar territory with the Mafia in Goodfellas (1990). He followed with two films which were remakes, Cape Fear (1991) and The Age of Innocence (1993). Besides directing and co-writing, Scorsese has also acted. It's interesting to note he played the gunman at the finale of Mean Streets (1973) and the cab passenger planning to kill his wife in Taxi Driver (1976). He also had a role in Yume (1990).

Filmography

# Untitled Airbus Documentary Project (2006) (in production) # The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (2008) (announced) # Silence (2008) (announced) # Untitled Rolling Stones Documentary (2007) (filming) # The Departed (2006) # No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) # The Aviator (2004) # Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty (2004) (TV) # Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003) (V) (video "Bad") # "The Blues" (2003) (mini) TV Series (episode "Feel Like Going Home") # Gangs of New York (2002) # The Concert for New York City (2001) (TV) (segment "The Neighborhood") # Bringing Out the Dead (1999) # Mio viaggio in Italia, Il (1999) ... aka My Voyage to Italy (USA) # Kundun (1997) # A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) (TV) # Casino (1995) ... aka Casino (France) # Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory (1995) (V) (video "Bad") # The Age of Innocence (1993) # Amazing Stories: Book Four (1992) (V) (segment "Mirror, Mirror") # Cape Fear (1991) # Goodfellas (1990) ... aka GoodFellas (USA: promotional title (video box title) (poster title)) # Made in Milan (1990) # New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life Lessons") # The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) # Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (V) # Bad (1987) (V) # The Color of Money (1986) # "Amazing Stories" (1 episode, 1986) ... aka Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (USA: complete title) - Mirror, Mirror... (1986) TV Episode # After Hours (1985) # The King of Comedy (1983) # Raging Bull (1980) # The Last Waltz (1978) # American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978) ... aka American Boy # New York, New York (1977) # Taxi Driver (1976) # Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) # Italianamerican (1974) # Mean Streets (1973) # Boxcar Bertha (1972) # Street Scenes (1970) ... aka Street Scenes 1970 (USA) # I Call First (1967) ... aka J.R. (USA: reissue title) ... aka Who's That Knocking at My Door (USA: new title (longer version)) # The Big Shave (1967) ... aka The Big Shave... or, Viet '67 # It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964) # What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) # Vesuvius VI (1959)