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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies


A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute. In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller; the director as an illusionist such as D.W. Griffith and F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on; the director as a smuggler such as filmmakers
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Martin Scorsese


earlier film resurfaced more or less intact, most obviously the casting of both Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Pesci once again playing an unbridled psychopath. Sharon Stone was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. During the filming Scorsese played a background part as a gambler at one of the tables. Scorsese still found time for a four-hour documentary in 1995, titled "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies", offering a thorough trek through American cinema. It covered the silent era to
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Some Came Running (film)


without faltering." The film was popular with the public. According to MGM records, it earned $4,245,000 in the US and Canada and $2,050,000 elsewhere, becoming the 10th highest-earning film of 1958. But its high cost meant that MGM would record a loss of $207,000 ($ million today) on the film. At the 31st Academy Awards, the film received the following nominations: Martin Scorsese included a clip from the film for his "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies"; the
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The Red House (film)


(LP864; 7 February 1947); that copyright was not renewed. The film was highlighted in episode 1 of Martin Scorsese's documentary film "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies". "The Red House" was released as a two disc Blu-ray/DVD combo set on April 24, 2012 in the US and other countries from Film Chest and HD Cinema Classics. Digitally restored in high definition and transferred from original 35mm elements, this DVD/Blu-ray combo pack includes original 35
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Nothing but the Blues (film)


talks with Martin Scorsese about his personal musical journey and how the past blues legends have influenced his style and approach to music. The recording sessions took place on November 8, and November 9, 1994 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, California. The film was released on June 19, 1995 in the United States via the PBS broadcasting companies around the country. It was never officially released as a film due to unclear reasons. Originally, the plan was set by Martin Scorsese to release the movie in summer of 1995.
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Rick Schwartz


there for seven years and eventually serving as the company's senior vice president of production. At Miramax, Schwartz oversaw the development and production of projects including Martin Scorsese’s "Gangs of New York", and "The Departed", and Alejandro Amenabar’s "The Others". In 2008, Schwartz founded Overnight Productions, which has financed and produced movies by directors including Robert Rodriguez, Darren Aronofsky and Gela Babluani. Later, Schwartz partnered with American financier, Jeremy Frommer to develop a technology company. He co-founded
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Martin Scorsese


. For their tenth-anniversary edition of the list, "Raging Bull" was moved to #4, "Taxi Driver" was moved to #52, and "Goodfellas" was moved to #92. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed two Scorsese films on their list of the most "heart-pounding movies" in American cinema: "Taxi Driver" at #22 and "Raging Bull" at #51. At a ceremony in Paris, France, on January 5, 2005, Martin Scorsese
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Keith McCready


Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money, loosely based on the novel by Walter Tevis (the sequel to "The Hustler"). In 1985, Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, and Scorsese's casting director, Gretchen Rennell, had come to Norfolk, Virginia, to the US Open Nine-ball Championship in search of actual pool personalities to play character roles. McCready was engaged in a game with Filipino pool champion Efren Reyes and was selected to be in the movie because of his entertaining style
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Arnon Milchan


Milchan Brothers Ltd.) were recruited to Lekem, a secret Israeli intelligence organization responsible for obtaining technology and material for Israel's nuclear program, and other highly secretive programs. Milchan became involved in the American movie business in 1977, after an introduction to American producer Elliot Kastner. Most notable among Milchan's film collaborations was his early work with Martin Scorsese. He developed close friendships with Robert De Niro, and directors Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Terry Gilliam and Oliver Stone. Milchan started his own production company in 1991 called New
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey


Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series "The Blues". The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time. In 2004, the box set won two Grammy Awards for
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Martin Scorsese


the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls, held every 10 years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select 10 films of their choice. Scorsese, however, picked 12, which are listed below: In 1997, Scorsese received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed three Scorsese films on their list of the greatest American movies: "Raging Bull" at #24, "Taxi Driver" at #47, and "Goodfellas" at #94
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CatchPlay


titles – "The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed" and "Splinter Cell" – marking the first investment by a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. CATCHPLAY and its partners will exclusively distribute the films in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Additionally, CATCHPLAY supported shooting for and invested in the production of Martin Scorsese’s passion project, "Silence", which was shot entirely in Taiwan. Capitalizing on the digitalization of Taiwan's pay TV systems, CATCHPLAY HD Movie Channel was launched in early 2013. Today the
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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


. Made after "Taxi Driver", the film was a box-office failure. Its budget was $14 million, a large figure at the time, but it grossed only $13 million at the box-office and its disappointing reception and his breakup with Minnelli drove Scorsese into depression and further into drug abuse. In 1980, Scorsese made "Raging Bull", a film starring De Niro as an emotionally self-destructive boxer, the film following his journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads
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Pim de la Parra


Pim de la Parra (born 5 January 1940) is a Surinamese-Dutch film director. Between 1967 and 1976, he directed films under the independent production company Scorpio Films with Dutch film director Wim Verstappen, who manages all of its achievements. After a few short films, he began his career as an international director with "Obsessions" (1969), co-written by Martin Scorsese. He co-produced "Blue Movie" (1971) by Wim Verstappen, which was one of the most erotic movies of
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Andy Albeck


Andreas "Andy" Albeck (September 25, 1921 – September 29, 2010) was an American movie executive, who was president and chief executive of United Artists, during a time when it released two films by Woody Allen, along with two films in both the James Bond and Rocky film series. He also oversaw production of Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull", a movie frequently mentioned as one of the films considered the greatest ever, as well as "Heaven's Gate", the box office bomb that led
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American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince


American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in "Taxi Driver". Prince is a raconteur telling stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline
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Olly Blackburn


University's Martin Scorsese Post-Production Award. Blackburn began his professional film career directing commercials and music videos, and became associated with the film production company Warp X. He served as Second Unit Director on the film "Reverb". Blackburn co-wrote and directed "Donkey Punch", which was his first film to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival. He shot the film on a £1 million budget over 24 days in South Africa. Movie critics likened his work on the film to filmmaker Peter Berg's "
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Dinner with Don


also will feature archives and footage from guest’s personal archives whenever possible." On March 20, 2017, it was announced that AARP had formed their own production company called AARP Studios. It was further reported that the company's first production would be a series starring comedian Don Rickles entitled "Dinner with Don". The first season was set to consist of ten episodes and feature guests including Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Marisa Tomei, and Martin Scorsese
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My Voyage to Italy


My Voyage to Italy () is a personal documentary by acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period. The films of Roberto Rossellini make up for half the films discussed in the entire documentary, dealing with his seminal influence on Italian cinema and cinema history. Other directors mentioned include Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. It was released in 1999 at a length of four hours.
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Gregory Dark


of production for Axis Films, a B movie company, from 1987 to 1995. Dark's erotic thrillers in the early 1990s such as "Animal Instincts I" and "II", "Body of Influence", and "Mirror Images II" featured Shannon Whirry in various stages of undress. In 1994, he directed the film "Stranger by Night" starring Steven Bauer. Dark's films of this period won him accolades such as "the Steven Spielberg of the soft-core set" and "the Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese


Hitchcock. In 2007, Scorsese was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (N.I.A.F.) at the nonprofit's thirty-second Anniversary Gala. During the ceremony, Scorsese helped launch N.I.A.F.'s Jack Valenti Institute, which provides support to Italian film students in the U.S., in memory of former foundation board member and past president of the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) Jack Valenti. Scorsese received his award from Mary Margaret Valenti, Valenti's widow. Certain pieces of Scorsese's film related material and personal papers are contained
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)


won a bidding war against Brad Pitt/Paramount Pictures for the rights to Jordan Belfort's memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street", and Martin Scorsese was considered to direct the film. During pre-production, Scorsese worked on the film's script before working on "Shutter Island". He describes having "wasted five months of [his] life" without getting a green light on production dates by the Warner Bros. studio. Jordan Belfort made $1 million on the movie rights. In 2010, Warner Bros. had
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Martin Scorsese


Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Scorsese earned his third Best Director nomination for "Goodfellas" but again lost to a first-time director, Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves"). Joe Pesci earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Goodfellas". Scorsese and the film won numerous awards, including five BAFTA Awards, a Silver Lion and more. The American Film Institute put "Goodfellas" at No. 94 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list.
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Martin Scorsese


as Vincent van Gogh in the film "Dreams" by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Scorsese's 1994 cameo appearance in the Robert Redford film "Quiz Show" is remembered for the telling line: "You see, the audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch the money." De Fina-Cappa was the production company he formed that same year with producer Barbara De Fina. Since the 1990s, Scorsese has increased his role as a film producer. Scorsese produced
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Tom Donahue (filmmaker)


, and "Thank You for Your Service", which was released theatrically by Gathr Films in 2016. In 2010, Donahue founded the production company CreativeChaos vmg with Ilan Arboleda and Steve Edwards. Donahue co-directed an episode of the 10-part AFI series, "100 Years/100 Movies" (with Linda Schaffer), which was broadcast on TNT in 1998. It was called "The Antiheroes", and included interviews with Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader and was narrated by James Woods. The series was executive produced
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James W. Parker


of Cynthia Ann, during a Texas Ranger attack on the village where she lived, resembles the rescue of Debbie Edwards when the Texas Rangers attack Scar's village. The Searchers movie inspired a number of American filmmakers and screenwriters, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Milius, Curtis Hanson, and Paul Schrader, all of whom grew up watching the film and have testified to its influence over their own filmmaking. Glenn Frankel suggests that Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) probably comes the closest to re
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Hong Kong action cinema


Woo and wire fu movies and also employed Yuen behind the scenes. Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" (2006) was a remake of the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy (2002–2003) by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Due to the new-found international awareness of Hong Kong films during the 1980s and early 1990s and a downturn in the industry as the 1990s progressed, many of the leading lights of Hong Kong cinema left for Hollywood, which offered budgets and pay which could not be equalled by Hong Kong production companies
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Mikhail Kalatozov


Festival. "The Red Tent" was a joint Soviet-Italian effort and featured an international team of actors, including Peter Finch, Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Krüger, Nikita Mikhalkov and others. It was nominated for the 1972 Golden Globe award as the best English-language foreign film. During the 1990s "I Am Cuba" was discovered by American film professionals and showed to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola who became so impressed with the production that they advocated the restoration and distribution of the movie that was
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Raging Bull


. Additionally, Films101.com ranked the film as the 17th best movie of all time in a list of the 10,790 most notable. In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild listed the film as the best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership. Contemporaries of Scorsese, like Francis Ford Coppola, have included it routinely in their lists for favorite films of all time. Martin Scorsese decided to assemble a soundtrack made of music that was popular at the time using his personal collection of 78s. With the
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Mardik Martin


Mardik Martin (born September 16, 1936) is an American screenwriter of Armenian descent. He was born in Iran and raised in Iraq. Although his family in Iraq was wealthy, he fled the country to avoid the draft and arrived in New York in a penniless state. In his book on the New Hollywood, Peter Biskind states that Martin had to wash dishes to pay his way through NYU, where he met fellow student Martin Scorsese in 1961. The two formed a close friendship and worked together on Scorsese's early
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Edgar Scherick


including "Bewitched", "Batman", "That Girl", "The Hollywood Palace", and "Peyton Place". After his television career, Edgar Scherick became a film and television producer and executive producer of 75 theatrical films, television movies and mini-series through his company Palomar Pictures International and other entities. In 1983, Scherick had a cameo role as Wilson Crockett, a network television executive, in the Martin Scorsese film, "The King of Comedy". By January 2, 1990, Scherick
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Charles Fredericks


Charles Fredericks (5 Sep 1918 in Columbus, Mississippi – 14 May 1970 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He was particularly known for his highly prolific career in B-Western movies and television Westerns during the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a talented Baryton-Martin and starred as Gaylord Ravenal in the 1946 Broadway revival of "Show Boat" and as Captain Nicholas Gregorovitch in the original 1947 production of "Music in My Heart". In more recent years
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Sidney J. Furie


Ipcress File" starring Michael Caine. He is considered by some an "auteur" director, elevating otherwise unremarkable genre films through strong, creative visuals, and atmospheric direction. His 1981 horror film "The Entity" was declared by director Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest movies of all time, and his Vietnam War film "The Boys in Company C" was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket." He is also the co-creator of the "Iron Eagle" action film franchise,
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that Scorsese will direct a Mike Tyson biopic. The film is set to star Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx to play Tyson. Foxx mentioned that, "This will be the first boxing movie that Martin Scorsese has done since "Raging Bull"." The Mike Tyson film that Terence Winter ("The Wolf of Wall Street", "Boardwalk Empire") is penning will cover the full breadth of his career, reportedly using the aging technology deployed in David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
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Neil Young


Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and numerous other rock musicians in the high-profile all-star concert "The Last Waltz", the final performance by The Band. The release of Martin Scorsese's movie of the concert was delayed while Scorsese unwillingly re-edited it to obscure the lump of cocaine that was clearly visible hanging from Young's nose during his performance of "Helpless". "American Stars 'n Bars" (June 13, 1977) contained two songs originally recorded for the "Homegrown" album,
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Charles Scorsese


Luciano Charles "Charlie" Scorsese (May 8, 1913August 23, 1993) was an American film actor, and the father of director Martin Scorsese. Scorsese was born in New York City, the son of Teresa and Francesco Scorsese, Sicilian immigrants from Polizzi Generosa, a small town near Palermo. He married film actress Catherine Scorsese in 1933. He was the father of Academy Award-winning film director Martin Scorsese. In 1980 he made his first film appearance in "Raging Bull", playing "Charlie". He
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese


Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (or Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, according to the main title graphic) is a 2019 American pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, covering Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it is the director's second film on Bob Dylan, following 2005's "No Direction Home". The bulk of "Rolling Thunder Revue" is
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Winter's Tale (novel)


ran through early 2013 and operated on a $60 million budget, down from the original $75 million budget. It is unknown when Helprin sold the movie rights, with one report of Martin Scorsese originally purchasing the rights. Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay adaptation for the movie and is also making this his directing debut. Warner Bros. Pictures approved the picture in February 2011. The cinematographer is Caleb Deschanel; composer Hans Zimmer wrote the score. Characters not appearing in the film include Jackson Mead, Virginia's son Martin, and
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Martin Sheen


appeared in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" as Captain Oliver Queenan, a commanding officer who is watching an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio). Martin Sheen and son Ramon Estevez combined both their real and stage names to create the Warner Bros.-affiliated company, Estevez Sheen Productions. The company's latest film is "The Way", written and directed by Sheen's son Emilio Estevez who also stars in the film as Martin's on-screen son, who dies while hiking the Camino de Santiago. His daughter, Renée,
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Martin Scorsese


as "You Can Count on Me" (directed by Kenneth Lonergan), "Rain" (directed by Katherine Lindberg), "Lymelife" (directed by Derick Martini) and "The Young Victoria" (directed by Jean-Marc Vallée). At that time, he established Sikelia Productions. In 2003, producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff joined the company. Scorsese also produced several documentaries, such as "The Soul of a Man" (directed by Wim Wenders) and "Lightning in a Bottle" (directed by
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Kent L. Wakeford


Kent Lon Wakeford (born 1928) is an American cinematographer, the co-founder of Wakeford / Orloff Productions and founder of Kent Wakeford and Associates, two commercial production companies. Wakeford is most known for working on Martin Scorsese's films Mean Streets and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, as well as on the films Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade and Wedding Bell Blues. Wakeford was born in 1928 and grew up in south Los Angeles. While finishing up high school, Wakeford apprenticed with fashion photographer Earl Scott.
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Peter Jackson


Cameron, Jackson said certain films gave him a "kick". He mentioned Martin Scorsese's crime films "Goodfellas" and "Casino", remarking on "something about those particular movies and the way Martin Scorsese just fearlessly rockets his camera around and has shot those films that I can watch those movies and feel inspired." Jackson said the 1970 film "Waterloo" inspired him in his youth. Other influences include George Romero, Sam Raimi and the special effects by Ray Harryhausens Jackson's first feature was "Bad Taste
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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


American director Martin Scorsese and American actor Robert De Niro have made nine feature films and one short film together since 1973. Most of the pair's films are in the crime genre, and some are often ranked among the greatest films of all time. In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white "I Call First", which was later retitled "Who's That Knocking at My Door", with fledgling actor Harvey Keitel. The film was intended to be the first of Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese


an overall loss. As noted in "Scorsese on Scorsese" by editor–interviewer Ian Christie, the news that Scorsese wanted to make a film about a failed 19th-century romance raised many eyebrows among the film fraternity; all the more when Scorsese made it clear that it was a personal project and not a studio for-hire job. Scorsese was interested in doing a "romantic piece". His friend Jay Cocks gave him the Wharton novel in 1980, suggesting that this should be the romantic piece Scorsese should film
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Jim Ojala


James Ojala (born May 6, 1977) is an American special effects and makeup artist, screenwriter and film director. Ojala grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, where he developed an early love of film through horror movies and the works of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, George A. Romero and Buddy Giovinazzo. Following his graduation from Duluth Central High School in 1995, Ojala began his career working in public-access television. There, he and his friends created the series "My Three Scums", a
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Samuel Fuller


younger filmmakers. The French New Wave claimed Fuller as a major stylistic influence, especially Luc Moullet. His visual style and rhythm were seen as distinctly American, and praised for their energetic simplicity. Martin Scorsese praised Fuller's ability to capture action through camera movement. In the 1996 documentary "The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera", Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch credited Fuller as influential upon their works. Most recently, his wife Christa Lang produced a documentary directed by their daughter Samantha about him. "A Fuller
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Appian Way Productions


Appian Way Productions is a film production company in West Hollywood, California, established by actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. As of 2016, the company has produced 14 feature films, five documentaries and a television show. It has frequently collaborated with Martin Scorsese, who has directed some of the company's most well-known films. The company's first film was "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" (2004), which was screened at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. In the company's second film, the 2004 biopic
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Dick Tracy (1990 film)


with Beatty as director, producer and leading man. He considered hiring Martin Scorsese to direct the film, but changed his mind. "It never occurred to me to direct the movie," Beatty admitted, "but finally, like most of the movies that I direct, when the time comes to do it, I just do it because it's easier than going through what I'd have to go through to get somebody else to do it." Beatty's reputation for directorial profligacy, notably with the critically acclaimed
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Martin Scorsese


Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese, appeared in bit parts, walk-ons or supporting roles, most notably in "Goodfellas". For his crew, Scorsese frequently worked with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographers Michael Ballhaus, Robert Richardson, Michael Chapman and Rodrigo Prieto, screenwriters Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, and John Logan, costume designer Sandy Powell, production designer Dante Ferretti, music producer Robbie Robertson, and composers Howard Shore and Elmer Bernstein. Schoonmaker, Richardson, Powell, and Ferretti have all won Academy Awards in their respective
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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


Niro nor Scorsese were nominated. Scorsese and De Niro collaborated for the first time in two decades for "The Audition", a 2015 short film that served as a promotional piece for casinos Studio City in Macau, China and City of Dreams in Manila, Philippines. The short united Scorsese's two muses, De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time on film under his direction. An upcoming American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by
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Roger Ebert


he could capture] the unique power of the movies to take us somewhere magical ... The movies won't be the same without Roger". Steven Spielberg stated that Ebert's "reviews went far deeper than simply thumbs up or thumbs down. He wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history, and in doing so, helped many movies find their audiences ... [he] put television criticism on the map". Martin Scorsese released a statement saying, "The death of Roger Ebert is an incalculable loss
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Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote "Mean Streets"), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was rewritten several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films "The Age of Innocence" and "Gangs of New York"). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro. The American Film Institute chose "Raging Bull" as the No. 1 American sports film on their list of the top
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Nicholas Pileggi


writing "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family" (1986), which he adapted into the movie "Goodfellas" (1990), and for writing "" and the subsequent screenplay for "Casino" (1995). The movie versions of both were co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the film "City Hall" (1996), starring Al Pacino. He served as an Executive Producer of "American Gangster" (2007), a biographical crime film based on
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Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance


Renaissance" (1988). "Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow" deals with the dark and often depressing nature of Scorsese's subjects and the way that a normally happy or perky person would also be quite depressed after watching one of his films. In the years leading up to the song's development, director, Martin Scorsese, had released "Raging Bull" (1980) and "The King of Comedy" (1983). The song also mentions the relationship between the director and the actor, Robert
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Martin Scorsese


Minnelli. By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make his highly regarded film "Raging Bull". Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, calling it a kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's "Sight & Sound" magazine
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and "Goodfellas") that made AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. Scorsese has often said he thinks De Niro's best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in "The King of Comedy". After the turn of the century, Scorsese found a new muse with younger actor Leonardo DiCaprio, collaborating for five feature films to date, along with one short. Several critics have compared Scorsese's new partnership with DiCaprio with his previous one with De Niro. Frequent collaborators also include Victor Argo (6),
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Martin Scorsese


Martin Charles Scorsese (, ; born November 17, 1942) is an American-Italian filmmaker and historian, whose career spans more than 50 years. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian-American identity (most notably Sicilian), Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one
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Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker)


"Raging Bull" (Academy Award, Film Editing, 1980), edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and directed by Martin Scorsese. Friedman has been making films with Rob Epstein since 1987, when they formed the production company Telling Pictures in San Francisco, California. Friedman and Epstein's first film together was "", inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, "Common Threads" recounts the first decade of AIDS in America through stories of five individuals featured in the Quilt. The film won the
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Catherine Scorsese


Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa; April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997) was an American actress, and the mother of director Martin Scorsese. Of Italian descent, she began acting when her son Martin Scorsese cast her in his film "It's Not Just You, Murray!". She frequently played the role of an Italian mother, and is perhaps most well known for her appearance in her son's film "Goodfellas". She acted in films other than her son's. She was married to Charles
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Billy Frolick


William "Billy" Frolick (born 1959) is an American writer and film director. Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Frolick graduated from NYU film school, where he studied under the famed professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian. In the eighties, Frolick moved to Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies as a script reader, agency assistant, and development executive. When the Writers Guild of America, west went on strike in 1988, his career as a journalist
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Ruggero Gabbai


with directors such as Miloš Forman, Paul Schrader, Emir Kusturica and Martin Scorsese. The first documentary he directed was his graduate thesis "The King of Crown Heights", which has been broadcast on prime time by PBS and distributed all over the world. During those years, he worked in fashion photography for Paul Labraque's atelier, and he establishes the post-production company "ARC pictures". Gabbai worked as photo-reporter for the south-American weekly magazine "Cosas" by shooting portraits of popular celebrities such
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10 sports films. In 1997, the Institute ranked "Raging Bull" as the 24th greatest film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. In 2007, they ranked "Raging Bull" as the 4th greatest film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, "The King of Comedy" (1983). It is a satire on the world of media and celebrity
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Patricia Clarkson


part, Clarkson said: "I got the call that every actor lives for. “Patty, Martin Scorsese is thinking of casting you in his new movie.” And I do what I call the little “Martin Scorsese dance” around my apartment. I think I was in my underwear or pajamas. It's a call you live for. Then I hear back, “But it’s just one scene.” So then I'm dancing a little lower. Then I hear, “It’s you and Leonardo
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A Trip to the Moon


" through the extensive tribute to Méliès and the film in the Brian Selznick novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and its 2011 Martin Scorsese film adaptation "Hugo". Film scholar Andrew J. Rausch includes "A Trip to the Moon" among the "32 most pivotal moments in the history of [film]," saying it "changed the way movies were produced." Chiara Ferrari's essay on the film in "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", which places "A Trip to the Moon
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio


out of 4 and wrote "the movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes." In 2013, DiCaprio reunited with Scorsese for "The Wolf of Wall Street". The film was based on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort and recounts Belfort’s career as a stockbroker and the rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street that led
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Hiro Narita


The Candidate" in 1971, he photographed the television movie "Farewell to Manzanar" in 1975, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1976, he was one of the camera operators on Martin Scorsese's documentary "The Last Waltz" about the last concert of The Band. Later, he worked on projects like "Apocalypse Now", "More American Graffiti", and the Neil Young documentary "Rust Never Sleeps". For his cinematography on the movie "Never Cry Wolf" he won the Boston
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. De Niro and Joe Pesci offered a virtuoso display of the director's bravura cinematic technique in the film and re-established, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released Roger Ebert, a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named "Goodfellas" "the best mob movie ever" and is ranked No. 1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with Gene Siskel and Peter Travers, the film is widely considered one of the director's greatest achievements. The film was nominated for six Academy
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Light Sleeper


. The movie was still in the process of fundraising when the date of production start, which Schrader had given to stars Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon, arrived, so Schrader financed the first three weeks of pre-production from his own money. "Light Sleeper" was the first artistic collaboration of actor Willem Dafoe and director Paul Schrader, who met during filming of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ". Dafoe and Schrader continued working together in "Affliction" (1997), "Auto Focus" (
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Colin Vaines


write and direct "The Guard". After co-producing Michael Radford's "B. Monkey", Vaines supervised production and development for UK lottery franchise The Film Consortium from 1997 to 1999, overseeing movies including "Hideous Kinky", starring Kate Winslet. In 1999, he was appointed Executive Vice-President, Development for New York-based Miramax Films, becoming Executive Vice-President, European Production and Development in 2002. He was co-executive producer of Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York", and
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Joan Collins


tour of "The Praying Mantis" (1953). In 1954, Collins was chosen by famed director Howard Hawks to star as the scheming Princess Nellifer in her first international production, "Land of the Pharaohs". The lavish Warner Brothers historical epic was not a success upon release but has attracted considerable interest over the years and has been lauded by Martin Scorsese and French critics supporting the auteur theory for numerous elements of its physical production. Danny Peary in his book "Cult Movies" (1981), selected it as
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Melissa Monet


Melissa Monet (born July 16, 1964) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, writer and film director. Monet entered the adult film world in 1994 at the age of 30. Monet has also appeared in the porn-related documentaries "Rated X: A Journey Through Porn" and "Pornstar Pets". She has directed 19 hardcore titles and has directed softcore cable movies for Roger Corman's production company Click Productions. Monet was born in Staten Island, New York City. Monet cites John Leslie as
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Martin Scorsese


play sports or do any activities with other children, so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his life that he developed a passion for cinema. As a teenager in the Bronx, Scorsese frequently rented Powell and Pressburger's "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951) from a store that had one copy of the reel. Scorsese was one of only two people who regularly rented that reel; the other was future "Night of the Living Dead" director
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Joker origin story, to be directed by Todd Phillips. Meant to be a "gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film" in Gotham City in the early '80s, the movie was reportedly intended to feel like no other iteration of the DC comic universe. In July 2018, it was announced that Scorsese is no longer involved with the project. Scorsese has been married five times. His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976; they
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The King of Comedy (film)


and De Niro's insistence that the film could be made "real fast", and that it would be a "New York movie" Scorsese's interest in the project was rekindled. Scorsese's first choice for talk show host Jerry Langford was Johnny Carson. Carson refused the role, saying "you know that one take is enough for me". The entire Rat Pack was also considered—specifically Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—before a decision was made to select Martin's old partner, Jerry Lewis. Arnon Milchan
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Jonathan Taplin


the Woodstock documentary, Martin Scorsese. Scorsese, who had just finished shooting his second feature, "Boxcar Bertha", for Roger Corman, showed Taplin his script named "Season of the Witch" (co-written with Mardik Martin). Changing the title to "Mean Streets" at the suggestion of their mutual friend Jay Cocks, Taplin later told Peter Biskind that "I was naive enough to think that if I could have produced 150 concerts, I could produce a movie." Taplin raised US$500,000 independently and
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William Monahan


a later date. Monahan steadily secured work in the film industry throughout the 2000s. Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, hired Monahan to write an adaptation of Hong Kong director Andrew Lau's gangster film "Infernal Affairs". Monahan respun "Infernal Affairs" as a battle between Irish American gangsters and cops in Boston's Southie district, and Martin Scorsese directed the completed screenplay under the title "The Departed" for Warner Bros. Monahan's work on the film would later earn him two Best Adapted Screenplay awards, from
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At the Movies (1986 TV program)


The Theory of Flight". Ebert continued the show with a series of guest critics. Originally containing the "Siskel & Ebert" title, the program was renamed "Roger Ebert & the Movies" on the weekend of September 4–5, 1999, following the death of Gene Siskel. The guests were allowed to try out their wits with Roger Ebert and test the possible chemistry. Ebert and film director Martin Scorsese cohosted one noteworthy episode about the best films of the 1990s. This format continued through the end of the 1998–99 season
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Kander and Ebb


Kander and Ebb were a highly successful American songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander (born March 18, 1927) and lyricist Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004). Known primarily for their stage musicals, which include "Cabaret" and "Chicago", Kander and Ebb also scored several movies, including Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York". Their most famous song is the theme song of that movie. Recorded by many artists, "New York, New York" became
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Martin Scorsese


his first feature-length film, the black and white "I Call First", which was later retitled "Who's That Knocking at My Door" with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semiautobiographical J. R. Trilogy, which also would have included a later film, "Mean Streets". Scorsese became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Brian De Palma
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, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro. During this period he worked as the assistant director and one of the editors on the documentary "Woodstock" (1970) and met actor–director John Cassavetes, who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor. In 1972, Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter "Boxcar Bertha" for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola,
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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


Palma materialized in 1963 at the age of 20, when he appeared in "The Wedding Party". However, the film was not released until 1969. The two reunited for the 1968 film "Greetings", which was De Niro's official film debut. In 1973, De Niro had been praised for his role in "Bang the Drum Slowly" while Scorsese had been working as an editor on the movie "Woodstock". The same year, Scorsese and De Niro collaborated for the first time on the gangster film
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Makoto Fujimura


and Culture" (NavPress, 2009), and Culture Care (Fujimura Institute, 2014). IN 2016, Fujimura released "Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering" (IVPress), an autobiographical journey into Shusaku Endo's "Silence". Fujimura acted as a special advisor to the major motion picture by Martin Scorsese based on Endo's "Silence". Fujimura's essays have appeared in Image Journal, American Arts Quarterly, Time and World magazine. His essay "The Fallen Towers and the Art of
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Martin Scorsese


an Oscar and gave Scorsese the clout to finally secure backing for a project that had been a longtime goal for him: "The Last Temptation of Christ". In 1983, Scorsese began work on a long-cherished personal project, "The Last Temptation of Christ", based on the 1951 novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis that retold the life of Christ in human rather than divine terms. Barbara Hershey recalls introducing Scorsese to the book while they were filming "Boxcar Bertha". The film was slated to shoot under the
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Sandra Weintraub


Sandra Weintraub Roland is an American soap opera writer and producer. She is most notable for her writing on CBS's The Young and the Restless, which she has written in different positions since 1998. In the 1970s she was also notable for her close relationship with Martin Scorsese. They lived together for four years during which time she worked on Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as associate producer, and also served in other production capacities on Taxi Driver and Mean Streets. In addition, she appeared briefly, and uncredited
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Byron Janis


and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal", which was released in November 2010. In the DVD "A Voyage With Byron Janis", he hosts a musical journey through Chopin's life. Martin Scorsese is developing a Byron Janis Biopic at Paramount from a script by Peter Glanz. The project is based on Janis' autobiography. Among his honors are: He received an honorary doctorate at Trinity College and the gold medal from the French Society for the Encouragement of Progress, the first musician to receive this
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio


" gave the film four stars out of four and described the film and its subject, Howard Hughes, in these terms: "What a sad man. What brief glory. What an enthralling film...There's a match here between Scorsese and his subject, perhaps because the director's own life journey allows him to see Howard Hughes with insight, sympathy – and, up to a point, with admiration. This is one of the year's best films." The duo's next collaboration, the 2006 crime drama
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Stanley Weiser


He also wrote "", for which he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best TV movie. As of 2012, he wrote a biopic on the life of Rod Serling, the writer and "The Twilight Zone" creator. Weiser began his career as a production assistant for Brian De Palma on "Phantom of the Paradise", and as an assistant cameraman on the Martin Scorsese documentary, "Street Scenes". He is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the
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Gregory Paul Martin


has focused on script writing. His personal website says he sold a script for a movie called "Tsunami", optioned as an ABC miniseries, and a script for a movie called "Ice" as a sci-fi action thriller set in Antarctica. In 1998 Martin returned for a brief period to England and started a film and television production company, according to his website. After receiving poor treatment from the British tabloid press, he left England again, determined not to return. In 2000, he published a satirical
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Duel in the Sun (film)


was later issued on LP and CD. "Duel in the Sun" was first shown on American television during a special ABC Sunday evening showing. It was released on Region 1 DVD in 2004. Martin Scorsese has stated to James Lipton on "Inside the Actors Studio" that this was the first film he saw and holds it in high regard. He mentioned it in his documentary of American movies. David Stratton has also stated a similar high opinion of the film, at the ACMI's "Desert Island Flicks" on
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Gary Ferguson (nature writer)


in the American Mind". W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. "Hawks Rest: A Season in the Heart of Yellowstone". National Geographic Adventure Press, 2003. Torrey House Press, 2015. "Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild". Thomas Dunne Books, 1998. "Through the Woods: A Journey Through America's Forests". Originally published as "The Sylvan Path: A Journey Through America's Forests". St. Martin's Press, 1997. Reprint Torrey
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Vulcan Productions


Vulcan Productions produces documentary films, television programming and virtual reality experiences that drive awareness around environmental and social issues. The company was founded in 1997 by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen. The company finances and co-produces films with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. Its films and TV series have aired on video on-demand services like Netflix, HBO and Hulu and across networks like The Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Films produced by Vulcan Productions have won Peabody
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Martin Scorsese


nominations. "Hugo" is Scorsese's first 3D film and was released in the United States on November 23, 2011. Scorsese's 2013 film, "The Wolf of Wall Street", is an American biographical black comedy based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name. The screenplay was written by Terence Winter and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, along with Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and others. The film marked the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the second between Scorsese and Winter after "Boardwalk Empire
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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


's semi-autobiographical "J. R. trilogy", which also would have included his later film, "Mean Streets". Scorsese had impressed many with the film and made friends with Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Zemeckis, known as the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s. It was De Palma who introduced Scorsese to the young actor Robert De Niro. De Niro had known De Palma for several years previously, and his first film role in collaboration with De
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no way out of it." In 2010, "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Scorsese was supporting the David Lynch Foundation's initiative to help 10,000 military veterans overcome posttraumatic stress disorder through Transcendental Meditation, and Scorsese has publicly discussed his own practice of TM. In 2009, Scorsese signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, calling for his release from custody after he was detained in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges. Scorsese was recognized as an Italian citizen by "jus sanguinis" in 2018. In
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The Movies (miniseries)


, you know, beyond belief with estates in a lot of the situations, too." He went on to explain that the episodes, in their opinion, would present a "pretty good outline of what those decades are", and that they had managed to obtain every interview they had aimed to include—including John Singleton prior to his April 2019 death, as well as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford almost immediately before a production deadline. Herzog explained that "most directors like Singleton are really historians of film, and
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Maureen O'Hara


including Best Picture, though O'Hara was devastated at not even being nominated for an award. Film director Martin Scorsese called "The Quiet Man" "one of the greatest movies of all time", and in 1996 it topped a poll of the greatest films in the "Irish Times". O'Hara's last release of 1952 was "Against All Flags" opposite Errol Flynn, marking her only collaboration with the actor. O'Hara, knowing Flynn's reputation as a womanizer, was on close guard during the production. Though she
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Matte World Digital


company was renamed Matte World Digital, reflecting the new technological tools available to matte painters. Since then, MWD has created digital-matte environments for films directed by (among others) Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and David Fincher. After working on shots for more than 100 films, Matte World Digital closed its shop in August, 2012. MWD was the first visual-effects company to apply radiosity rendering to film in Martin Scorsese’s "Casino" (1995). Recreating the 1970s-era
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio


was influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors such as Luchino Visconti and filmed in its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios. With a production budget said to be in excess of $100 million, "Gangs of New York" was Scorsese's biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date. The film marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio. Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction. Once DiCaprio
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Rentrak


and the HDNet networks, purchased 120,000 more Rentrak shares on Aug 22, 2011 and holds an 8.7 percent ownership stake in the company as of Sep 22, 2011. He has been accumulating Rentrak stock since 2004. Total company revenue increased 32 percent to $28.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, up from $21.6 million for the same period last year. The company's TV Everywhere product line grew 64%, its Movies Everywhere product line improved 10% on a constant currency basis, and its OnDemand Everywhere
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