Martin Scorsese

by Scorsese, Martin; Brunette, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781578060726
• ISBN10: 1578060729
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

From the moment he captured the film world's attention withMean Streets(1973), a portrait of life at the fringes of the Mob, it was clear that a dazzling cinematic talent had arrived on the scene. With Robert DeNiro, one of the most talented young actors from this film, Scorsese went on to make some of the greatest American films of the postwar period, includingTaxi Driver(1976),Raging Bull(1980), andGoodfellas(1990). A Scorsese film seldom fails to stir controversy, for his devotion to realism has led him to forthrightly depict violence and its frightening randomness in the modern world. His biblical film also created quite a stir. This adaptation of Kazantzakis'sThe Last Temptation of Christgenerated outrage among conservative religious leaders.Scorsese, however, has not limited himself to contemporary, violent urban dramas or new interpretations of biblical subjects. Other widely heralded Scorsese films includeAlice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974),New York, New York(1977),The Last Waltz(1978),The King of Comedy(1983),After Hours(1985),The Color of Money(1986),Cape Fear(1991),The Age of Innocence(1993),Casino(1995), andKundun(1998).These interviews begin with conversations about the highly autobiographicalMean Streets(1973), which first brought Scorsese serious attention, and end with conversations aboutKundun, an overtly political biography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, released in early 1998."I look for a thematic idea running through my movies, he says, and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it."Peter Brunette , a professor of English and film studies at George Mason University, is the author ofRoberto Rosselliniand (forthcoming)The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni. With David Wills he co-authoredScreen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
Filmography
He Has Often Walked Mean Streets	p. 3
Dialogue on Film: Martin Scorsese	p. 9
Martin Scorsese's Gamble	p. 48
Martin Scorsese Tells All: Blood and Guts Turn Me On!	p. 59
Taxi Dancer: Martin Scorsese Interviewed	p. 71
Martin Scorsese's Elegy for a Big-Time Band	p. 79
Raging Bull	p. 84
Scorsese's Past Colors His New Film	p. 100
Chalk Talk	p. 106
... And Blood	p. 113
Scorsese: A Bicoastal Story	p. 124
You've Got to Love Something Enough to Kill It: The Art of Non-Compromise	p. 128
Martin Scorsese's Cinema of Obsessions	p. 138
Martin Scorsese Interviewed	p. 146
What the Streets Mean	p. 158
Slouching Toward Hollywood	p. 186
Martin Scorsese Interviewed	p. 200
Martin Scorsese's Testament	p. 220
The Art of Vision: Martin Scorsese's Kundun	p. 236
Everything Is Form	p. 257
Index	p. 267
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