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On Wednesday, November 14 at 7 PM, on the eve of his 76th birthday, Martin Scorsese returns to his childhood parish, the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mott and Prince Streets, for a conversation about how his youthful imagination was inspired by his church and his neighborhood of Little Italy.  Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7:00 PM...

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C’è pochissimo tempo da perdere in introduzioni all’inizio dell’incontro con Martin Scorsese alla Festa del cinema di Roma, perché da che erano stati concordati 5 film italiani importanti per la formazione del regista italoamericano, Scorsese ha continuato ad aggiungerne fino a poco prima dell’evento. Da 5 sono subito passati a 6, poi ha fatto sape...

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Rossellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, De Sica, Olmi, Germi, Rosi, Visconti e Fellini: ci sono tutti i maestri del neorealismo italiano tra i nomi che hanno influenzato il cinema di Martin Scorsese. Lo racconta lo stesso regista statunitense nell’incontro con il pubblico, organizzato dalla Festa del cinema di Roma per conferirgli il premio alla carriera...

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Uno dei più grandi registi al mondo, premio Oscar nel 2007 per The Departed, da ieri è a tutti gli effetti cittadino italiano. Martin Scorsese è stato trascritto infatti, alle ore 11:05, l’atto di nascita al Comune di Polizzi Generosa (Palermo) che ufficializza la cittadinanza italiana. La richiesta è arrivata il 9 agosto scorso dal Consolato gener...

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Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor.  The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli.  Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His g...

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Growing up in a working-class family in the mean streets of New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood, Martin Scorsese admits he didn’t have access to books. He got his education about the world by going to the local cinema.“I learned a lot about American ideals primarily from the movies,” Scorsese recalls. “Something like The Grapes of Wrath . . ....

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His epic saga Vikings has become one of the world’s most popular television shows, even boosting tourism in Scandinavia. The Tudors enjoyed similar success. Now Michael Hirst, the British screenwriter, is joining forces with Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, to make a series about a joint obsession: the Romans. The Caesars will tell the story of...

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We need a term for the sort of scripted documentary that’s bubbling up these days from young, independent filmmakers. Like the work of Chloé Zhao, whose The Rider was a standout at Cannes last year, or New York–born Italian-American director Jonas Carpignano’s films, which draw from real life milieus, casting people as themselves and framing their...

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Legendary film director Martin Scorsese has stated many times that one of the biggest influences in his work was the Italian Neorealism period in Italy. His personal documentary My Voyage to Italy (also check out: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies) is a journey through Italian Cinema history and marking influential fil...

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Legendary director, producer writer and sometimes actor Martin Scorsese turns 75 today. He began making films as a 17 year old in 1959 and directed his first feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door, in 1967. Since then he's made over 30 feature films including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed, Gangs of New York and The King of Comedy. It's be...

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