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 >

Scorsese was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment.

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.

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.

Once the financing was in place, Scorsese began to recruit his cast.

" 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.

According to Scorsese it was Brian De Palma who introduced him to Schrader.

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.

In December 2011, Martin Scorsese was interviewed about combining his passion for 3D as a new medium with the legacy of older films, and said that if he could go back in time he would " shoot Taxi Driver in 3D.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Martin Scorsese was also nominated five times without winning before receiving the award for his sixth nomination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Category: Films directed by Martin Scorsese

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Filmmakers such as Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese have named it one of their all time favorite films.

In the introduction for The Criterion Collection DVD of Jean Renoir's The River, Martin Scorsese, who has long championed Powell and Pressburger's works, considers The Red Shoes, along with the Renoir film to be the two most beautiful colour films.

Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese in particular are huge fans of Lean's epic films, and claim him as one of their primary influences.

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 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.

" It was cited by acclaimed director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time and assessed Gene Tierney as one of the most underrated actresses of the Golden Era.

Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films, 1993's The Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 ).

Director Martin Scorsese appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an unseen character.

Douglas is known for her part in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear ( 1991 ) – one of four Scorsese films in which she has appeared – plus her starring role as singer-songwriter Denise Waverly in Allison Anders ' Grace of My Heart ( 1996 ) and supporting roles in To Die For ( 1995 ) and Ghost World ( 2001 ).

The two appeared together in a few films, including The Good Guys and the Bad Guys ( 1969 ) and Boxcar Bertha ( 1972 ), which was produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese.

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.

In his commentary on The Criterion Collection DVD of Black Narcissus, Scorsese stated that Michael Powell's films influenced The King of Comedy in its conception of fantasy.

While the film did not do well commercially, critically it was acclaimed, with Martin Scorsese naming Bottle Rocket one of his favorite films of the 1990s.

Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films.

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

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!

Director Martin Scorsese placed The Entity on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time.

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.

Ebert and film director Martin Scorsese cohosted one noteworthy episode about the best films of the 1990s.