Martin Charles Scorsese (/skÉ"Ë rˈsÉ›si/, Italian: [skorˈseË ze;
-eË se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director,
producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New
Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant
and influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work
explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts
of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, crime and tribalism. Many of
his films are known for their depiction of violence, and the liberal
use of profanity and rock music. In 1990, he founded The Film
Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation,
in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation and in 2017, he
introduced the African Film Heritage Project.Scorsese studied at New
York University, where he received a bachelor's degree in English
literature in 1964, and received a master's degree in fine arts in
film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1966. In 1967 Scorsese's
first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door was released and was
accepted into the Chicago Film Festival, where critic Roger Ebert saw
it and called it "a marvelous evocation of American city life,
announcing the arrival of an important new director". Scorsese's
mentors included John Cassavetes, whose chatty, improvisational style
did much to influence Scorsese's scripts and production work, and who
told him to "make films about what you know". In 1971 Scorsese moved
to Hollywood, where he associated with some of the young directors who
defined the decade, including Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola,
Brian De Palma, and George Lucas. He directed Boxcar Bertha (1972), a
cut-rate Depression-era film for Roger Corman, and Mean Streets
(1973), a personal film about faith and redemption shot in Little
Italy, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.
-eË se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director,
producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New
Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant
and influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work
explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts
of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, crime and tribalism. Many of
his films are known for their depiction of violence, and the liberal
use of profanity and rock music. In 1990, he founded The Film
Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation,
in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation and in 2017, he
introduced the African Film Heritage Project.Scorsese studied at New
York University, where he received a bachelor's degree in English
literature in 1964, and received a master's degree in fine arts in
film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1966. In 1967 Scorsese's
first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door was released and was
accepted into the Chicago Film Festival, where critic Roger Ebert saw
it and called it "a marvelous evocation of American city life,
announcing the arrival of an important new director". Scorsese's
mentors included John Cassavetes, whose chatty, improvisational style
did much to influence Scorsese's scripts and production work, and who
told him to "make films about what you know". In 1971 Scorsese moved
to Hollywood, where he associated with some of the young directors who
defined the decade, including Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola,
Brian De Palma, and George Lucas. He directed Boxcar Bertha (1972), a
cut-rate Depression-era film for Roger Corman, and Mean Streets
(1973), a personal film about faith and redemption shot in Little
Italy, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.
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