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Martin Scorsese
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Scorsese by Ebert offers the first record of America's most respected film critic's engagement with the works of America's greatest living director, chronicling every feature film in Scorsese's considerable oeuvre. In the course of eleven interviews done over almost forty years, the book also included Scorsese's own insights on both his accomplishments and disappointments. Eber has also written and included six new reconsiderations of the director's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Brian Selznick takes readers on an intimate tour of the movie-making process as his Caldecott Award-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret is turned into a 3-D major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director, Martin Scorsese, written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, John Logan.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese’s contribution to the Century of Cinema series is a fascinating exploration of some of the landmarks of American cinema, as well as some of its lesser known byways. Scorsese analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith, FW Murnau, Sam Fuller and John Cassavetes. This is no academic history, but a declaration of passion for cinema from one of its most celebrated contemporary practitioners. This episode explores the concepts...
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese’s contribution to the Century of Cinema series is a fascinating exploration of some of the landmarks of American cinema, as well as some of its lesser known byways. Scorsese analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith, FW Murnau, Sam Fuller and John Cassavetes. This is no academic history, but a declaration of passion for cinema from one of its most celebrated contemporary practitioners. This episode explores the concepts...
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese’s contribution to the Century of Cinema series is a fascinating exploration of some of the landmarks of American cinema, as well as some of its lesser known byways. Scorsese analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith, FW Murnau, Sam Fuller and John Cassavetes. This is no academic history, but a declaration of passion for cinema from one of its most celebrated contemporary practitioners. This episode explores the concepts...
11) A letter to Elia
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this look at director Elia Kazan. From his triumphs with films such as On the Waterfront to his controversial naming of names during the HUAC hearings, Kazan is shown in all his complexity.
13) Goodfellas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A dramatization of one man's life in the Mafia over a period of three decades.
14) Shine a light
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Features performances by the Rolling Stones from the band's "A Bigger Bang" tour with special guests Christina Aguilera, Jack White III, and Buddy Guy.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Talk show host Jerry Langford is kidnapped on his way to the studio by an aspiring stand-up comic who is short on talent but long on ambition. The ransom demand: an appearance on Langford's show to perform his routine.
16) Alienation
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Blockbuster director John Landis makes the voyage to Bergman's home and opens up about his love for film.
17) Rumble
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of...
18) The last waltz
Series
Criterion collection volume 1118
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to document the farewell performance of the legendary group the Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary.
19) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
20) Casino
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sam "Ace" Rothstein is the front man for one of the mob's premiere Vegas casinos in the 70s. Joined by strong man Nicky Santoro, the casino runs smoothly until an icy blonde jinxes their winning streak.