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 ).

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

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.

Martin Scorsese grew up in New York City.

His father, Charles Scorsese ( 1913 – 1993 ), and mother, Catherine Scorsese ( born Cappa ; 1912 – 1997 ), both worked in New York's Garment District.

Shot during a New York summer heat wave and garbage strike, Taxi Driver came into conflict with the MPAA for its violence ( Scorsese desaturated the color in the final shoot-out and got an R ).

He was part of the wave of " New Hollywood " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola.

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.

However, she did not decide to stay full time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese ( 1979 – 1982 ).

He continued starring in films throughout the 1980s, including Under Fire ( 1983 ) with Gene Hackman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills ( 1986 ) with Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler, Extreme Prejudice ( 1987 ) and New York Stories ( 1989 ) under the direction of Martin Scorsese.

After his death, the song " Solemn Prayer ", on which Khan provided vocals, was used on the Peter Gabriel song " Signal to Noise " ( on the album Up ), and on the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York.

Mac Rauch shelved his work for a few years while he wrote New York, New York for Martin Scorsese and other un-produced screenplays.

After a five-year absence from filming, Day-Lewis returned to act in multiple Academy Award-nominated films such as Gangs of New York, a film directed by Martin Scorsese ( with whom he had worked on The Age of Innocence ) and produced by Harvey Weinstein.

The film marks the seventh of eight collaborations between director Scorsese and De Niro, following Mean Streets ( 1973 ), Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), New York, New York ( 1977 ), Raging Bull ( 1980 ), The King of Comedy ( 1983 ), Goodfellas ( 1990 ), and ending with Casino ( 1995 ).

This is also the first film Scorsese shot in the wider 2. 39: 1 aspect ratio, as opposed to the smaller 1. 85: 1 ratio in which he had filmed all his previous works ( excluding New York, New York, which was shot in 1. 66: 1 ).

* Martin Scorsese discusses Leave Her to Heaven at 45th New York Film Festival

The following year, Kander and Ebb worked with Minnelli and Martin Scorsese twice: first, in the film New York, New York, which had them write what is perhaps their best-known song, the title track ; and, again in The Act, a musical about a fictional nightclub act.

Martin Scorsese mentions that he first heard of the film as a film student in the early 1960s, when Peeping Tom opened in only one theatre in Alphabet City, which, Scorsese notes, was a seedy district of New York.

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.

In 1978, Scorsese was approached by a New York distributor, Corinth Films, which asked for $ 5000 for a wider re-release.

Other notable figures who appeared in the series include Rudolph Giuliani ( then the mayor of New York City ), former mayor Ed Koch, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, former U. S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, poet Allen Ginsberg, novelists Alfred Kazin and Brendan Gill, director Martin Scorsese, journalist Pete Hamill, former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, historian Niall Ferguson, philosopher Marshall Berman, writer Fran Lebowitz, engineer Leslie E. Robertson, high wire artist Philippe Petit, and billionaire Donald Trump.

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.

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

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 >

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

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

" This inspired Scorsese to make a film about his own experiences.

" Scorsese sent the script to Corman, who agreed to back the film if all the characters were black.

Scorsese was anxious to make the film so he considered this option, but actress Verna Bloom arranged a meeting with potential financial backer, Jonathan Taplin, who was the road manager for the musical group, The Band.

Taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $ 300, 000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film.

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

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

" A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit ; the Court dismissed the case because the police violated the owners ' Fourth Amendment rights, without reaching the question of whether the film was obscene.

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

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

Scorsese calls attention to improvisation in the film, such as in the scene between De Niro and Cybill Shepherd in the coffee-shop.

James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.

** Martin Scorsese, American film director

His initial desire to become a priest while attending Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx gave way to cinema, and, consequently, Scorsese enrolled in NYU's University College of Arts and Science, ( now known as the College of Arts and Science ), where he earned a B. A.

According to Martin Scorsese, in this work Pastrone invented the epic movie and deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.

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