Martin Scorsese: A Journey
by Mary Pat Kelly
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In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese's journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly's show more groundbreaking biography reveals how this working-class boy from Manhattan's Little Italy became one of our most acclaimed, celebrated, and influential filmmakers. Martin Scorsese: A Journey maps Scorsese's personal and artistic evolution though his films, from early works like student films and Mean Streets through cinematic masterpieces like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,The King of Comedy,Goodfellas. Across interviews with Scorsese himself; stars like Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Liza Minelli, and Nick Nolte; colleagues including screenwriters and cinematographers; as well as family and friends, it reveals the story of a man in a way that only his community and fellow artists can, giving us unprecedented, intimate access to the making of these iconic films and the extraordinary mind behind them. Brimming with insight into Scorsese's life, values, process, humor, and inspirations, it is a remarkable account of America's premiere director, the shepherd of countless imaginations. show lessTags
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Bashful or secretive, Scorsese isn't. He LOVES to talk about himself and why he does or did what he does or did and why he thinks he should have or shouldn't have. I know if I were to sit down for a drink with him, we'd be talking like old friends at once. I've read everything there is about him and even listened to all of his own commentaries on disks of his movies. My kind of guy. Creative, too, at least in the early years. People born after the 70's will never know the shock of his veracity was in Mean Streets, and why I was hooked from then on.
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- Canonical title
- Martin Scorsese: A Journey
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Martin Scorsese; Charles Scorsese; Catherine Scorsese; Frank Scorsese; Father Frank; Principe (show all 71); Mardik Martin; Ira Rubin (Alex Robeson); Harvey Keitel; Thelma Schoonmaker; Haig Manoogian; Jay Cocks; Oliver Stone; Charles Milne; Barbara Hershey; Robert DeNiro; Richard Romanus; Michael Powell; Ellen Burstyn; Paul Schrader; Peter Boyle; Michael Chapman; Irwin Winkler; Liza Minnelli; Robbie Robertson; David Field; Cis Corman; Joe Pesci; Cathy Moriarity; Paul Zimmerman; Sandra Bernhard; Freddie Schuler; Patroclos Stavrou; Eleni Kazantzakis; David Kirkpatrick; Keith Addis; Sting; Harry Ufland; Amy Robinson; Michael Ballhaus; Griffin Dunne; Rosanna Arquette; Michael Ovitz; Paul Newman; Richard Price; Joe Reidy; Michael Eisner; Tom Pollack; Aidan Quinn; Willem Dafoe; Verna Bloom; Peggy Gormley; Paul Herman; Vic Argo; Michael Been; Alan Rosenberg; Leo Burmester; Tomas Arana; Gary Basaraba; Peter Gabriel; Barbara DeFina; Nick Nolte; Nestor Almendros; Jeffrey Katzenberg; Nicholas Pileggi; Paul Sorvino; Chris Serrone; Frank Dileo; Ray Liotta; Elaine Kagan; Wesley Strick
- Epigraph
- "I get my timing from my mother."
- Martin Scorsese - Dedication
- For my mother, Mariann Williams Kelly,
and in memory of my father,
Michael Joseph Kelly - First words
- "No, actually, I met Martin Scorsese twenty-five years ago in the mop room of the convent where I was studying to be a nun." (Introduction)
Martin Scorsese discovered his parents while shooting the documentary Italianamerican in 1974. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Here, the boy who grew up in the paradox of priests and gangsters, who still explores "the incessant merciless battle between spirit and flesh," dissolves all contradictions and finds the moments where there are no divisions, only a Real Presence.
- Blurbers
- Scorsese, Martin; Spielberg, Stephen
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 791.430233092 — Arts & recreation Sports, games & entertainment Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Supervision Film direction History, geographic treatment, biography Directors
- LCC
- PN1998.S39 K45 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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