In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver ; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue.

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Mean Streets ( 1973 ), and musical drama New York, New York ( 1977 ).

In 1993, her recording of " Marble Halls " from Shepherd Moons was featured in the Martin Scorsese film, The Age of Innocence.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

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 >

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

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.

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He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

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

Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.

From left: Salvo Cuccia, Martin Scorsese and Vittorio De Seta at the Tribeca Film Festival | 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.

Martin Scorsese grew up in New York City.

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

Along with fellow writer Mardik Martin, Scorsese wrote the whole script while driving around Little Italy in Martin's car.

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Director Martin Scorsese said of him, " He is the marker.

* 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American film director

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

Filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, have praised the film as one of the greatest modern Westerns.

Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

Martin felt it was incredible that the situation had come to exist at all.

All Martin thought he needed was time: to what better use could time be put??

Martin was standing a few feet from the front door.

She was talking about him that time, because he had done some bad thing, something she disliked, but `` Afterwards Martin said he was sorry.

But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.

They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.

He was so anxious to capture the tune in his head, he asked fellow passenger friend Harry Martin for his shirt cuff to write the tune on.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

The Grand Master then journeyed to Wittenberg, where he was advised by Martin Luther to abandon the rules of his Order, to marry, and to convert Prussia into a hereditary duchy for himself.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

The dreadnought style was designed by Martin Guitars to produce a deeper sound than " classic "- style guitars, with very present bass fundamentals.

Martin V was elected as new pope in 1417.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford.

The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

Between the years 1926 and 1937 Bertelli was the technical director of Aston Martin, and the designer of all subsequent Aston Martin cars during this period, these being known as the " Bertelli cars ".