Scorsese pondered whether he could face shooting another film, particularly with a looming strike by the Writers Guild of America.

* Martin Scorsese is a fan of Ray's, particularly his expressionistic use of color in Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ), Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ).

The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.

The Infernal Affairs series was then remade by Martin Scorsese in 2006 as The Departed, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Despite a lengthy and successful movie career, working with directors like Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter, Carradine is probably best known for portraying fraternity president " Lewis Skolnick " in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and the father, " Sam McGuire ", on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.

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 2003, Martin Scorsese collaborated with many blues musicians including Keb ' Mo ' to put together a series of films entitled The Blues.

The documentary series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese, depicts the recording band for Electric Mud performing with Chuck D and members of The Roots.

He also directed several episodes of the television series seaQuest DSV, and he made his debut as an actor in the Martin Scorsese film, The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ), playing Zebedee, the father of the apostles James and John.

* In the prohibition-era HBO television series Boardwalk Empire ( with executive producer Martin Scorsese ), Canadian Club is the imported liquor of choice.

It was further rearranged in the 2003 Martin Scorsese documentary film series titled The Blues.

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 ).

The festival included juried narrative, documentary and short film competitions ; a Restored Classics series ; a Best of New York series curated by Martin Scorsese ; 13 major panel discussions ; an all-day Family Festival ; and the premieres of studio films Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About A Boy, the American remake of Insomnia, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as well as the American premiere of Spider-Man 3 and The Avengers.

The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders as the second installment of the documentary film series " The Blues " produced by Martin Scorsese.

The film is part of The Blues, a seven part series, with Martin Scorsese acting as executive producer.

* The Blues ( film ), documentary series produced by Martin Scorsese

Farley is the author of the fact-based novel Kingston by Starlight, the novel My Favorite War ; and biographies Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley ; Aaliyah, More Than a Woman ; Introducing Halle Berry ; and is a co-author of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, A Musical Journey.

Scorsese notes in his documentary that in contrast to directors who often become more restrained and more conservative stylistically as their careers advance, Rossellini became more and more unconventional and was constantly experimenting with new styles and technical challenges.

These include Woody Allen, Angela Bassett, Colin Firth, Johnny Madera, Tim Burton, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, John Travolta, William Hurt, Vanessa Williams, Bill Clinton, Salma Hayek, Isabella Rossellini, Kevin Smith, Daniel Handler, Alec Baldwin, Steven Soderbergh, Omar Sharif and Jonathan Demme.

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.

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.

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

Both Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure were featured on-stage in the rock-star jammed The Last Waltz, a documentary and concert film made by Martin Scorsese about The Band ( who had an immense following in the late ' 60s to mid ' 70s ) and a large number of their musical friends.

Helm remained with The Band until their 1976 farewell performance, The Last Waltz, which was recorded in a documentary film by director Martin Scorsese. The documentary is widely considered the greatest rock and roll film ever made.

Scorsese said that Powell always treated fantasy as no different than reality, and so made fantasy sequences as realistic as possible.

It's hard to believe Scorsese made it ..." He also wrote, " Scorsese doesn't want laughs in this movie, and he also doesn't want release.

Because Bakshi did not have a lawyer, he sought advice from directors he had become friends with, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, asking them how much they made on their films.

The film is a favorite of Martin Scorsese, who called it " one of the greatest epic films ever made.

The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same name, released in 1978.

According to Scorsese, Dylan made the stipulation that only two of his songs could be filmed: " Baby Let Me Follow You Down " and " Forever Young ".

One of producer Roger Corman's famous exploitation films, the movie was made with a modest $ 600, 000 budget and taught Scorsese how to make films quickly and economically.

The concert also included several short films made by New York City's most notable filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee.

* The Dachau Massacre figures prominently in the back story of Teddy Daniels, the protagonist of Dennis Lehane's psychological mystery-thriller Shutter Island, ( later adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio ).

The film was admired by many 1960s counterculture figures, notably Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who financed a complete print, as well as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Luis Buñuel.

The majority of critics were unimpressed, although there was praise for the film's cinematography by Michael Ballhaus who has worked with Martin Scorsese.

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!

* In the 1991 version of Cape Fear, also directed by Scorsese, the characters of Max Cady and Danielle Bowden discuss the book briefly.

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.

After another actor dropped out of the project, Scorsese cast Harvey Keitel in the pivotal role of Charlie.

The film was the second highest grossing film of 1947 and turned out to be the first movie that Martin Scorsese would see, inspiring Scorsese's director's career.

Martin Scorsese picked the movie as part of a 1987 National Film Theatre season of his favourite films, saying " If I single this one out it's because here they actually isolate the soul ...

Originally Martin Scorsese was slated to direct the project, but has since dropped out, though not ruling out the possibility of producing the film.

The movie Bringing out the Dead by Martin Scorsese contains a scene showing the book on a shelf in Frank Pierce's home.

According to Bakshi, when Martin Scorsese was filming second-unit material for Taxi Driver near Times Square, a smoke bomb was thrown into a theater showing Coonskin, and Scorsese sent Bakshi footage of audience members running out of the theater.