cultural work on the part of Scorsese is perhaps necessary, given his lack of commercial

success. By establishing himself as an important authority on film culture, he has almost

guaranteed that he will be a powerful and influential figure within the future of American

film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy

Award-winning American film director, writer, producer, actor and film historian. Also

affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation

and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema

and has won awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America.

Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film

preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.

His initial desire to become a priest was forsaken for cinema – the seminary traded for

NYU Film School, where he received his MFA in film directing in 1969.

Born in NY. Sicilian HERITAGE!

EARLY CAREER= Although the Vietnam War had started at the time, Scorsese (who

had struggled with asthma since his childhood[5]) did not serve in the military. He

attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966[6])

making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)

and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly

comic The Big Shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until

profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an

indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet

'67.[7]

Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white Who's That

Knocking at My Door with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma

Schoonmaker both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was a

precursor to his later Mean Streets. Even in embryonic form, the "Scorsese style" was

already evident: a feel for New York Italian American street-lif e, rapid editing, an

eclectic rock soundtrack, and a troubled male protagonist

[edit] Shutter Island

On October 22, 2007, the Daily Variety reported that Scorsese will reunite with Leonardo

DiCaprio on a fourth picture, Shutter Island. Principal photography on the Laeta

Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, be gan in

Massachusetts in March 2008.[48][49]

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