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Mean Streets: De Niro becomes a star. Keitel is brilliant. Influenced many films strongly, such as "The Deer Hunter."
Taxi Driver: Again, brilliant performances: Walken, Savage, De Niro, Streep... how many stars here were born?
After Hours: Martin captures an entire generation. An overlooked gem which, because it doesn't feature mega-violence, often is forgotten. Again, it provided a stage for several actors that went on to greater success.
Age of Innocence: Again, because it's Scorsese, this is very underappreciated. An intelligent love story with tension and as much emotional violence as any shoot-'em-up. Daniel Day Lewis and (sigh...) Wynona Ryder ascend.
Last Temptation of Christ: Caused a sensation upon its release but, unfairly, it has been forgotten.
My Voyage to Italy: A documentary which will make you, if you now are not, a mega fan of Italian film.
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Age of innocence, you liked that one? You must be a hadcore fand of him.
His documentaries about films, they are excellent.
He is not a director I like. I mean for films, his Dylan was outstandingly made.
The plot was so reaching and incidental it was a template for "indie" writing.
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wish Scorcese would do more films like this one
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> > Taxi Driver: Again, brilliant performances: Walken, Savage, De Niro, Streep... how many stars here were born? < <What do Walken, Savage and Streep have to do with Taxi Driver? You're obviously thinking of Deer Hunter, which isn't a Scorcese movie. What are you smoking.
You left out Kundun, which is one of Scorcese's strongest, IMO.
Casino is a masterpiece, beyond Goodfellas.
I hope a different screenwriter, director and cast tackles the Last Temptation of Christ. The book has so much more material to mine and (for me) yields such different characters than the movie, I feel Scorcese & co totally missed the mark. Keitel as Judas and Defoe as Christ? I'm not feeling it. What a waste. Similarly, age of innocence, while meticulously produced and directed, was sterile and boring. Incredible attention to detail and camerawork though. Gotta give Marty props for that.
You should at least mention Raging Bull, arguably the strongest character study in the history of film.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
one sentence's stuff into the other: you did see I mentioned DH in the previous sentence?
Anyhow, Kundun was... boring.
Casino? Unwatchable.
Raging Bull was overwrought, as is much Scorsese. It's an ugly depiction of an ugly character. The fight sequences are bullshit. I've sat many times at ringside. Ridiculous. It's meant to be a realistic depiction and it fails. It's perhaps worse than the average Hollywood fight epic where the hero absorbs a gazillion blows any ONE of which would fell an Ali.
No argument makes sense since opinions are so personal in film.
I find it hard to believe you appreciated De Niro in RB, though. You really can watch that film repeatedly?
Yeah, every film buff and movie critic is wrong and you're right. Raging Bull sux. What were we all thinking? Here we have an epic story of a man who uses the ring to have a life but the ring becomes his life and the excesses he succumbed to ended up taking everything of value. Here was a gifted actor who became that character more convincingly than the work of anyone else in his generation. And though I'm no Olivier, if he fought sugar ray, he would say that the thing ain't the ring, it's the play. So give me a stage where this bull here can rage, and though I can fight I'd much rather recite...that's entertainment.
Casino was a far more focused story about the mob's grip on Vegas than Goodfellas was about "3 decades in the mafia" or whatever. Both are good explorations in the "honor among thieves" genre. But Casino just had far more going for it, and the narration of Liotta in Goodfellas was not convincing. He sounded more like a California surfer than a brooklyn gangster. I'll take De Niro and Pesci narrating Casino over that any day.
The Daniel Day Lewis snoozer makes Kundun seem like a thriller. It's a much more tragic, much more important story than Olde New York. If you can sit through the Lewis film, you can make it through Kundun. Or do you need some whitebread actor to make it easy for you to relate to the characters?
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
dislike Kundun, just to be consistent.
As to your racial taunt, read a few more of my film comments and be enlightened.
According to RT, Kundun was well reviewed by 73% of the professional critics that saw it. Among them was Ebert, Holden of the New York Times, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. So which critics were you referring to?
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Agree, great list. I have all these. I would add "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas" to the list. His output since then has been erratic at best.
I have to nitpick as you've attributed way more start making power to those films than they deserve.
Out of all the films and stars you mentioned the only one's who Scorcese really launched were De Niro, Keitel (and really, how big a star is he? How many movies has he opened) and, drum roll... Linda Fiorentinto (sp?) from After Hours (Griffin Dunne never became a star and Teri Garr had already made the big time).
The rest... Lewis had already done Room With a View, My Beautiful Laundrette, My Left Foot, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Last Of The Mohican's when he did AOI. Winona had already done Beetlejuice, Heathers, Eric Scissorhands and Dracula.
It does make the list seem formidable when you add in Savage, Walken, and Streep but it's a big stretch to say that The Deer Hunter was influenced by Mean Streets and therefore those stars owe a nod to Marty for their stars rising.
I would though add Joe Pesci to the list (though he's a "star" in a similar way that Keitel is) and Ray Liotta and he even made Tom Cruise seem like a good up and coming actor in The Color Of Money (also under-rated in my opinion).
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
...Jodie Foster as the young hooker Iris in Taxi Driver?
;0)
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I had too much time on my hands this morning.
;-)
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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