WHEN it comes to the design of his films, the director Martin Scorsese is known for detailed clarity. The sets for his recent period films -- ''Shutter Island,''''The Aviator,''''Gangs of New York'' -- have each evoked a specific time and place thanks to his collaboration with the production designer Dante Ferretti, who supervises the design and...
IN 1937 Frank S. Nugent, a film critic for The New York Times, cast an amusing and jaundiced look at what had become a favorite subject for the movies: Movies! ''Before our somewhat astonished eyes,'' he wrote, Hollywood ''has begun shedding its 7 and 70 veils, dropping a shoulder strap here, discarding a wrap there.'' But Nugent, who went on to...
''Hugo,'' an enchantment from Martin Scorsese, is the 3-D children's movie that you might expect from the director of ''Raging Bull'' and ''Goodfellas.'' It's serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. No one gets clubbed to death, but shadows loom, and a ferocious Doberman nearly lands in your lap....
Martin Scorsese (født 17. november 1942 i Queens, New York, USA) er en amerikansk filminstruktør.
Hans første spillefilm hed Who's That Knocking At My Door? (1967) med Harvey Keitel i hovedrollen. Herefter blev han medlem af de såkaldte "movie brats" i 1970'erne sammen med Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas og Brian De Palma. Det var De Palma, der introducerede ham for Robert De Niro, og de to blev gode venner og arbejdede sammen på mange projekter. Deres første film hed Mean Streets. Herefter steg begges stjerner hurtigt på Hollywoods himmel især efter filmen Taxi Driver med den berømte scene, hvor De Niro til sit eget spejlbillede siger: 'Are you talking to me?'.
Efter en skuffelse med musicalfilmen New York, New York kom Scorsese tilbage på toppen med filmen Raging Bull endnu engang med Robert De Niro i hovedrollen. Martin Scorsese lavede den kontroversielle kristusfilm The Last Temptation of Christ i 1988. Derefter lavede han endnu en film, der udspillede sig i New York: Goodfellas der blev et kæmpe hit såvel kommercielt som kunstnerisk. Fold ud