Movies inspire a lot of passion, but the back catalogue of film history can be daunting. For every fan who's obsessed with an actor, director or sub-genre, there's another struggling to know where to start. Sometimes all it takes is the right recommendation to set you on your path from newbie to know-it-all... Your next obsession: modern movie master Martin Scorsese
As a filmmaker, Martin Scorsese came of age in the heyday of New Hollywood – a time in which directors ruled the roost, fuelled by the rise of the auteur theory and the collapse of the studio system. Along with his fellow movie brats – Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma and Steven Spielberg – Scorsese would help to reinvent American cinema by creating intensely personal films that were deeply indebted to the history of cinema.
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