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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 22 September, 1996 DVD Release : 05 September, 2000 |
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The Directors - Martin Scorsese description We've all heard the claim that Martin Scorsese is "the greatest living American director" (and Jodie Foster repeats it here), but that hyperbole certainly hasn't gone to Scorsese's head. Throughout the extensive interview clips included here, Scorsese proves to be a perfectly modest host to a survey of his own career, providing context and insight for nearly every film he's made. Not surprisingly, the reticent Robert De Niro is not among the other interviewees (Harvey Keitel's absence is also keenly felt), but Foster, Ray Liotta, and especially Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio prove to be articulate observers of Scorsese's work. (The inclusion of The Color of Money Oscar-winner Paul Newman is also welcomed; "I'm not dead yet," he says, jokingly pleading for another role in a Scorsese film.) Overall, this is a perfectly suitable overview of Scorsese's work, especially if viewed by budding film students, but the fact that Scorsese's life and work have been so thoroughly examined elsewhere makes this one-hour program a bit too familiar for more well-informed film buffs. --Jeff Shannon |
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| I'm so glad the Oscars turned out the way they did this year because no one is more worthy of receiving a statue than Martin Scorsese. If you ask me, he should get one for his every endeavor as there has never been a more consistent director of genius in the history of the movies--in my biased opinion. His artistic integrity is absolute as the body of his oeuvre is magnificent. I'm not sure how anyone else could have made his landmark successes-- Goodfellas, Casino, Taxi Driver and Gangs of New York--any better. Even secondary works like Mean Streets and The Departed are close to being perfect. For this documentary, they go right to primary sources, actors who have worked with him, as a means of describing him. The views of Jodie Foster, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Willem Dafoe, and Joe Pesci are all recorded. I also liked Scorsese's insight that the music in his movies is a separate character in itself. I have never considered that before. | |
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