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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1968 DVD Release : 17 August, 2004 |
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Who's That Knocking at My Door? description Martin Scorsese's debut feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door? contains many of the autobiographical elements that would inform Scorsese's work as became a director of world-class importance. This was Harvey Keitel's debut as well, and he plays a young New Yorker named J.R. (the name also served as the film's alternate title) as a tortured vehicle for Scorsese's own inner conflict between rigid Catholic tradition and initial forays into liberating sexual experience. Produced over a lengthy on-and-off schedule while Scorsese was a struggling New York University film student, and shot in the Little Italy neighborhoods where Scorsese was raised, the film (with a final budget of $75,000) is a boldly stylized, stream-of-consciousness experience, establishing Scorsese's passion for well-chosen rock & roll soundtrack songs while plumbing the depths of J.R.'s soul as he begins a tenuous relationship with an independent, sexually experienced young woman (Zina Bethune) who's at odds with J.R.'s seething repression. Incorporating fantasy sequences to further convey the young man's turbulent thoughts and emotions, Who's That Knocking at My Door earned favorable reviews, announcing the arrival of a bracing new talent and setting the stage, five years later, for the breakout triumph of Mean Streets. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Brilliant Debut |
| Martin Scorsese's debut film is one that may not be remembered when looking back over his career, but it is one that should be seen to understand just what a brilliant mind he is.
The movie follos J.R., a catholic man with ties to the mafia. He meets a young girl and the movie is mainly about his time spent with her and his other "family". The dichotic issues Scorsese explored in this movie would be explored in more detail in his future films, including the immaculate [[ASIN:B000286RP2 Mean Streets (Special Edition)]]. THe DVD features a commentary with Martin Scorsese, only scene specific but definitely worth a listen, and a Making Of featurettte that definitely should be checked out. Definitely recommended. |
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