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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, who eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Scorsese to get back Schindler's List, which Scorsese had decided not to make.

Others, such as Martin Scorsese or John Boorman, have continued to make acclaimed and successful films.

Levon Helm, in his 1993 autobiography This Wheel's on Fire, expresses serious reservations about Scorsese's handling of the film, claiming that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson ( who produced the film ) conspired to make The Band look like Robbie Robertson's sidemen.

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.

When a film critic derided the movie in order to make a point about good and bad movies, Scorsese revealed, " I like Shakes the Clown.

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.

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

Scorsese attended New York University's film school ( B. A., English, 1964 ; M. F. A., film, 1966 )< ref >

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

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

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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.

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.

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