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Martin Scorsese responds to production company's lawsuit -
25 August 2012
-Martin Scorsese is shocked by a lawsuit filed over an alleged stalled film project, insisting he's always had an "amicable" working relationship with the production company suing him.-Bosses at Cecchi Gori Pictures filed suit against the director last week (beg20Aug12)
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Martin Scorsese sued over stalled movie project -
23 August 2012
-Director Martin Scorsese has been hit with a lawsuit over allegations he has stalled a film project for over 20 years.-Bosses at Cecchi Gori Pictures filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (22Aug12) over claims the legendary filmmaker entered into an agre
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Robert De Niro recommended DiCaprio to Scorsese -
14 June 2012
-Martin Scorsese made sure to check out the talents of a young Leonardo DiCaprio on the advice of his old pal Robert De Niro - because the veteran actor "rarely" recommends people to the filmmaker.-De Niro handpicked a then 18-year-old DiCaprio to play the lead role in 1
Martin Scorsese - what members say
review by from London
This is as good as it gets 7 May 2004
review by JediSi from Kent
Go home and get your shine box. 17 November 2007
review by from Castleford,England
Great film! 7 July 2005
Martin Scorsese - filmography
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Hugo - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as Hugo, an orphan who lives in the hidden nooks of a train station in 1920s Paris. With the help of his friend, Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), he sets ..read more »
 
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Corman's World
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Nicholson
Director: Alex Stapleton
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Documentary on the life of legendary B-movie director Roger Corman. Over the course of a career spanning over six decades, Corman has directed and produced numerous films and has developed a reputation as one of the most respected figures in Hollywood. Corman's influence on the last half century of ..read more »
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Shutter Island
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Craig McCall directs this documentary tribute to cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who died in April 2009. After working as a cameraman for Hitchcock and for Powell and Pressburger in the 1940s, Cardiff was asked by director Michael Powell to oversee the cinematography for the 1946 film 'A Matter of ..read more »
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A Letter to Elia
(2010)
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan
Director: Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films including "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Gentleman's Agreement," "Baby Doll," "A Tree ..read more »
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Boardwalk Empire - Series 1
(5 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Martin Scorsese
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From Terence Winter (Emmy®-winning writer on HBO's The Sopranos) and Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition. The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the city treasurer whose ..read more »
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Rolling Stones - Shine A Light - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Rolling Stones
Director: Martin Scorsese, Martin Scors
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Director Martin Scorsese captures the legendary rock and roll band in concert during their 'A Bigger Bang' tour in 2006. Filmed over two nights at New York's Beacon Theater, the concert features guest appearances from Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera and Jack White. Tracks include: 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'..read more »
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Scorsese, Martin Scors
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In South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime, young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has ..read more »
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bob Dylan
Director: Martin Scorsese
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The first documentary about the groundbreaking songwriter to be made with his full co-operation. Martin Scorsese directs this biography of one of the most important figures in the history of popular music, covering his arrival in New York in the early 1960s and his dominance of the counter-cultural ..read more »
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The Aviator
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Fast-paced biopic documenting the life of one of the most colourful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hughes, the son of a Texan inventor who dies and leaves him with a small fortune. Hughes moves to Los Angeles to become a Hollywood film producer and produces ..read more »
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Feel Like Going Home
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Othar Turner, Corey Harris, Johnny Shines
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese traces the origins of the blues using a combination of original performances and rare footage. His journey takes him from the banks of the Niger River in Mali to the cotton fields and juke joints of the Mississippi Delta.
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Gangs Of New York
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Martin Scorsese
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In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
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Concert For New York City
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Eric Clapton, Harrison Ford, Billy Crystal
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A concert held to raise money and indeed morale in the light of the bombing of the World Trade Center, September 11th, 2001.Madison Square Garden plays host to a galaxy of stars from stage, screen and recording studio including: Elton John, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, James Taylor, Bon Jovi, Kevin ..read more »
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Bringing Out the Dead
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Marc Anthony, Cliff Curtis, Patricia Arquette
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Nicolas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying, Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing ..read more »
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My Voyage to Italy
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
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This survey of Italian cinema by Martin Scorsese is a follow-up to his 1995 documentary A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Packed with insight and film clips, Voyage covers Italian cinema from World War II through the early 1960s, the time that the young Scorsese watched these films before ..read more »
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Kundun
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese directs this epic based on the life of the present day Dalai Lama. In 1937 a monk roaming in Tibet proclaims that the two-year-old son of a rural family near the Chinese border is 'Kundun' - the reincarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, and next in line as Dalai Lama. The new Lama ..read more »
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Casino
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jayne Meadows, Jerry Vale, Steve Allen
Director: Martin Scorsese
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The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to ..read more »
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A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese ...
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Martin Scorsese
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A guide to the significant moments of movie history over the past 100 years, as seen through the lens of film buff director Martin Scorsese. Moving from silent classics, through Hollywood's Golden Age, and up to the present day, Scorsese explores the way various genres have developed and pays ..read more »
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Casino - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Don Rickles, Sharon Stone, Dick Smothers
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese casts Robert De Niro as Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, the mob's frontman for a billion dollar Las Vegas casino. The story begins in 1973; Ace falls for hooker Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), while boyhood companion Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) is appointed as his muscle at the club. ..read more »
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The Age of Innocence
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec McC, Winona Ryder, Michael Gough
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's scathing account of the tribal customs of the 19th century New York elite. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is betrothed to the demure May Welland (Winona Ryder), a sensible girl who befits his respectable social position. But when May's cousin, the ..read more »
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Mad Dog And Glory
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso
Director: John McNaughton
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Mad Dog (Robert De Niro) is a mild-mannered forensic policeman who finally pulls his gun and intervenes during a hold-up, saving the life of local hoodlum and stand-up comic Frank Milo (Bill Murray). In gratitude Milo loans his protector a beautiful waitress by the name of Glory (Uma Thurman) for ..read more »
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Cape Fear - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of the classic 1961 thriller. Tattooed psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has spent his 14-year prison term fermenting his bitterness towards attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), whom he blames for his incarceration. Upon his release Cady sets out to destroy the already ..read more »
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Cape Fear
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Illeana Dou, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public ..read more »
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Goodfellas
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-..read more »
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Goodfellas - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Frank Vincent, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's violent true-life gangster epic which follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises through the ranks of the Mafia. Upon turning FBI informant to help pay for his drug addiction, Hill recalls how he got started in the Mob following the $6 million robbery of a Lufthansa cargo at a ..read more »
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Guilty By Suspicion
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Martin Scorsese, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker
Director: Irwin Winkler
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Director David Merrill (Robert De Niro) is hot property in Hollywood until the McCarthy hearings begin and he refuses to co-operate with the 'House of Un-American Activities Committee'. He finds himself blacklisted, as a paranoid Hollywood refuses to employ him and shuns him, both socially and ..read more »
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The Grifters
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening
Director: Stephen Frears
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Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John ..read more »
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The Grifters - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening
Director: Stephen Frears
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When con-artist Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is reunited with his estranged con-artist mother Lily (Anjelica Huston), he finds himself caught in the middle of the savage feud which develops between her and his girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), also a con-artist. Myra is trying to draw Roy into a game ..read more »
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The Color of Money
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: John Turturro, Paul Newman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Oscar-nominated in 1961 for his performance as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, Paul Newman won that award a quarter century later when he reprised the role in The Color of Money. At the end of The Hustler, Felson was banned for life from playing the game professionally. In the ..read more »
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Anna Pavlova
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Galina Beliaeva, James Fox, Roy Kinnear
Director: Emil Loteanu
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This films charts the extraordinary life of the sickly little girl from a Russian village who becomes the world's most famous ballerina. Based on the real life story of the ballerina Anna Pavlova. It features incredible locations and an epic story.
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The King Of Comedy
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Tony Randall
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Robert De Niro plays a nerd with a mission, a fantasist who is determined to get himself on television, namely the Jerry Langford Show. But when Langford (Jerry Lewis) gives him the cold shoulder, De Niro hatches a banal kidnap plan.
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Raging Bull
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Frank Adonis, Nicholas Colasanto, Cathy Moriarty
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic of Jake La Motta, the boxing world champion who rose rapidly to fame but swiftly fell from grace. On the road to success, La Motta (Robert De Niro) marries the beautiful young Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), but the pressures of success soon make him paranoid and he ends ..read more »
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Raging Bull - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Frank Adonis, Nicholas Colasanto, Cathy Moriarty
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic of Jake La Motta, the boxing world champion who rose rapidly to fame but swiftly fell from grace. On the road to success, La Motta (Robert De Niro) marries the beautiful young Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), but the pressures of success soon make him paranoid and he ends ..read more »
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The Last Waltz
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary chronicling the farewell concert by The Band, featuring guest appearances from, among others, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neil Diamond and Joni Mitchell. The performance took place at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, and marked the end of ..read more »
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New York, New York
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Mary Kay Place, Lionel Stander
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) meets USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) at a ..read more »
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Cannonball
(1976)
Starring: Robert Carradine, Martin Scorsese, Veronica Hamel
Director: Paul Bartel
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An illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York is taking place that promises the winner $100,000. Coy 'Cannonball' Buckman (David Carradine), the race leader, drags his girlfriend Linda (Veronica Hamel) along for the ride. But Cannonball's nemesis Terry McMillan (Carl Gottlieb) barrels along in ..read more »
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Taxi Driver - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver, and is consumed with disgust by the 'filth' which surrounds him. His explosive, psychotic loathing eventually drives ..read more »
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Taxi Driver
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver, and is consumed with disgust by the 'filth' which surrounds him. His explosive, psychotic loathing eventually drives ..read more »
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Mean Streets
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cesare Danova, Jeanne Bell, Harvey Keitel
Director: Martin Scorsese
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You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it. Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a wannabe ..read more »
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Boxcar Bertha
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: John Carradine, Bernie Casey, Barbara Hershey
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
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Martin Scorsese facts
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...Martin Scorsese's searing masterwork Raging Bull is not just a film about a boxer. It's a film about obsessive jealousy, a film about the self destructive nature of masculinit...
