Scorsese on Scorsese: Revised Edition

by David Thompson, Ian Christie (Editor)

Overview

Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas—these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth.

The interviews which make up this book chart the journey that Scorsese has taken across the years in search of new subjects to engage and absorb him, and in the process reveal a man who, like Michael Powell and Francios Truffaut, has an unbridled passion for film—a passion which is evident in every frame of his work.

This new, revised edition includes chapters on Goodfellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, and other projects up to Casino, thus bringing up to date the story of America's most exciting and articulate contemporary filmmaker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571220021
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	01/14/2004
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	325,039
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ian Christie is the author of Arrows of Desire: the Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1985, 1994) and has written and edited four other books about their work. He has organised many retrospectives and played a part in the films' restoration. He is currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a regular broadcaster.

David Thompson, a film scholar, has edited or co-edited several titles in the Directors on Directors series, including Scorsese on Scorsese and Levinson on Levinson.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Foreword	xv
	Acknowledgements	xvii
	Introduction: Martin Scorsese--Storyteller, Illusionist, Smuggler and Iconoclast	xix
Chapter 1	Childhood in Little Italy--New York University	1
Chapter 2	Who's That Knocking at My Door?--Boxcar Bertha	23
Chapter 3	Mean Streets--Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore--Taxi Driver	38
Chapter 4	New York, New York--The Last Waltz--Raging Bull--The King of Comedy	68
Chapter 5	After Hours--The Color of Money	94
Chapter 6	The Last Temptation of Christ	116
Chapter 7	New York Stories--GoodFellas--Cape Fear	146
Chapter 8	The Age of Innocence--A Personal Journey	176
Chapter 9	Casino--Kundun	198
Chapter 10	Bringing Out the Dead--My Voyage to Italy	226
Chapter 11	Gangs of New York--New Projects	250
Appendix	The Last Temptation of Christ--the Controversy	250
	Filmography	280
	Bibliography	311
	Notes on the Editors	317
	Index	318