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1. www.britannica.com › biography › Martin-ScorseseMartin Scorsese | Biography, Films, Taxi Driver, & Facts

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   May 5, 2024 · Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker known for his harsh, often violent depictions of American culture. In terms of artistry, he is perhaps the most significant American director of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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2. www.bfi.org.uk › sight-and-sound › reviewsMade in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger: Martin ...

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   May 7, 2024 · As Martin Scorsese recounts near the beginning of this heartfelt tribute and testimony, the films’ very devaluation helped them reach new shores: at a time when Hollywood would not license its own wares to US television, leaving a gap filled by cheap imports, a very young and film-hungry Scorsese was peering at grubby, monochrome, recut ...

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   What is Martin Scorsese famous for?

   • Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker known for his harsh, often violent depictions of American culture. In terms of artistry, he is perhaps the most significant American director of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His notable films include Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, The Departed, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon.

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   Is Martin Scorsese a cult director?

   • Thus, Scorsese bears the not totally undeserved reputation as a cult director who works with big budgets and Hollywood ’s most desirable stars. In terms of artistry, he is perhaps the most significant American director of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)

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   Did Martin Scorsese make taxi driver?

   • Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese. Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese. Having proved that he could make a fairly conventional movie, Scorsese then shocked filmgoers with the neo-noir classic Taxi Driver (1976), a hellish tour of a disturbed Vietnam War veteran’s peculiar madness.

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   What was Scorsese's first film?

   • Among them were shorts such as What’s a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? (1963) and It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964). Scorsese’s first theatrical film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), was an intimate portrayal of life in the streets of Little Italy.

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4. www.cbc.ca › news › entertainmentProlific 'king of B movies' filmmaker Roger Corman dead at 98

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   1 day ago · Before Raging Bull, Scorsese directed Corman's Boxcar Bertha (1972). Before The Godfather , Coppola directed Dementia 13 (1963) for Corman. Jonathan Demme of The Silence of the Lambs fame directed ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Apocalypse_NowApocalypse Now - Wikipedia

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   5 days ago · Box office. $104.8 million [4] [5] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.

   • Box office: $100–150 million
   • Produced by: Francis Coppola

   • Budget: $31 million
   • Music by: Carmine Coppola, Francis Coppola

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_GodfatherThe Godfather - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film [2] directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard ...

   • Box office: $250–291 million
   • Music by: Nino Rota

   • Budget: $6–7.2 million
   • Produced by: Albert S. Ruddy

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › New_HollywoodNew Hollywood - Wikipedia

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   May 6, 2024 · The films of Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola influenced both the Poliziotteschi genre films in Italy and a decade later the Cinéma du look movement in France. American Eccentric Cinema has been framed as influenced by this era.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/12 › moviesRoger Corman, Producer of Low-Budget Horror Films, Dies at 98 ...

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   1 day ago · By Aljean Harmetz. Published May 12, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024, 12:12 p.m. ET. Roger Corman, who for decades dominated the world of B movies as the producer or director of countless proudly low ...