One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets ( 1973 ), Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Raging Bull ( 1980 ), and Goodfellas ( 1990 ) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.

In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà which he first saw on television alongside his relatives, who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, made a significant impact on his life.

Cassavetes told Scorsese he should do something like Who's That Knocking At My Door, which Cassavetes had liked, and then came Mean Streets, which was based on actual events Scorsese saw almost regularly while growing up in Little Italy.

According to Scorsese, the first draft of Mean Streets focused on Charlie's religious conflict and its effect on his worldview.

Another example, as Martin Scorsese has noted on television, is in the 1959 Ben-Hur.

Directors such as Martin Scorsese have acknowledged Peckinpah's direct influence on their approach to film violence.

In Scorsese on Scorsese the director mentions the religious symbolism in the story comparing Bickle to a saint who wants to clean up both life and his mind.

To achieve the atmospheric scenes in Bickle's cab, the sound men would get in the trunk and Scorsese and his cinematographer, Michael Chapman, would fit themselves on the back seat floor and use available light to shoot.

On the Laserdisc audio commentary, Scorsese acknowledged several critics ' interpretation on the film's ending being Bickle's dying dream.

It includes the special features from the previous 2-disc collector's edition, plus an audio commentary released in 1991 by director Martin Scorsese for The Criterion Collection, previously released on Laserdisc.

At the Berlinale 2010, De Niro, Scorsese, and Lars von Trier announced plans to work on a remake of Taxi Driver.

Martin Scorsese has also acknowledged Rossellini's seminal influence in his documentary, My Voyage to Italy ( the title itself a take on Rossellini's Voyage to Italy ).

Nonetheless production on the film was plagued by blown-out budgets and producer-director squabbles, resulting in a marathon eight-month shoot and, at US $ 103 million, the most expensive film Scorsese had ever made.

The actor eventually pitched John Logan's script to Scorsese, who quickly signed on to direct.

DiCaprio continued his run with Scorsese in the 2010 psychological thriller film Shutter Island ( 2010 ), based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.

He will reunite with Scorsese for the fifth time in The Wolf of Wall Street, a true story based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for security fraud and money laundering.

The 2011 Martin Scorsese film Hugo initially focuses on a mysterious notebook taken from the main character and his struggle to retrieve it ; " The notebook, of course, is just another storytelling device ( the McGuffin ) that ultimately proves irrelevant.

An account of the film's steady reappraisal can be found in Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by Ian Christie and David Thompson.

The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh and was edited by ( amongst others ) Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker ; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing.

Scorsese shot and edited a technically beautiful but largely gratuitous montage of J. R. fantasizing about bedding a series of prostitutes ( shot in Amsterdam, Holland with a visibly older Keitel ) and the film finally became Who's That Knocking at My Door ( named for the song which closes the film ).

His work is admired by many notable directors including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut, Michael Mann and Jacques Rivette.

Mean Streets is a 1973 crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin.

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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader.

It also features album notes by director Martin Scorsese, as well as full documentation for the tracks linking them in great detail to individual takes.

In later interviews, Scorsese commented that he was actually pleased by the color change and he considered it an improvement over the originally filmed scene, which has been lost.

In late January 2005 a sequel was announced by Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese.

Category: Films directed by Martin Scorsese

The concert was recorded by Robertson's friend, filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aimed at finding and reconstructing world cinema films that have been long neglected.

* Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) — nominated for four Academy Awards, directed by Martin Scorsese.

During the ceremony, he was accompanied by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Scorsese was " captivated " by Kazan's films as a young man, and the documentary mirrors his own life story while he also credits Kazan as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker.

* Scorsese by Ebert ( ISBN 978-0-226-18202-5 ) ( Excerpted Introduction )

In addition, DiCaprio is said to be involved in the pre-production of Ridley Scott's project Brave New World, Marc Forster's The Chancellor Manuscript and the biopic Sinatra, a film about Frank Sinatra to be directed by Martin Scorsese.

With fundraising spearheaded by Scorsese and his longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, the restoration work was completed by Robert Gitt ( assisted by Barbara Whitehead ) at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

His influence can be traced in the works of many directors, including Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, David Lynch, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and François Truffaut

Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone.

Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each.

Some of the guest stars who have appeared as themselves include Mel Brooks, Michael York, Martin Scorsese, Ben Stiller, Lucy Lawless, David Schwimmer, Shaquille O ' Neal, Rosie O ' Donnell, Ricky Gervais, Michael J.

Ovitz is a private investor who continues to advise informally the careers of luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, David Letterman and Tom Clancy.

Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, and Maya Deren as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.

Scorsese states that the film, in its black-and-white cut form, influenced Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary.

He made an appearance as a killer in the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets shooting to death the character played by his brother, David.

David Ehrenstein, author of The Scorsese Picture noted the mixed response of the film in his 1983 review.

Appearances include Ali Larter, Peter Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Mark Wahlberg, Kanye West, Tom Brady, Chuck Liddell, Jessica Alba, Gary Busey, Larry David, Scarlett Johansson, James Cameron, Dennis Hopper, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Eminem, LeBron James, Mark Cuban, John Cleese, and many others.

He has worked for a variety of studios and production companies, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, New Line, Universal, Disney, actor / producer Tom Cruise, and directors David Fincher and Martin Scorsese.

Directors who have attended and earned degrees from film schools include Francis Ford Coppola ( UCLA Film School, MFA film directing ), Martin Scorsese ( NYU Film School, MFA film directing ), David Lynch ( AFI Conservatory, MFA Film Directing ), and George Lucas ( USC Film School, BA film directing ).

Some of the contemporary directors he is most receptive to based on ratings and placement in top ten lists include Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Ang Lee.

Special Issues have covered Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Byrds, David Bowie, Demon Records, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Queen, Martin Scorsese, Motown Records, Morrissey, George Harrison, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin and more.

On nearly all occasions, only established and bankable directors are given such a privilege ( such as Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Joel & Ethan Coen, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Wolfgang Petersen, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, and Joe Dante ).