Scorsese on Scorsese

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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. INTRODUCTION: Martin Scorsese —Storyteller, Illusionist, Smuggler and Iconoclast xvii chapteri: Childhood in Little Italy —New York University i chapter2: 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: NewYork,NewYork—TheLastWaltz—RagingBull—The King of Comedy 68 chapter5: After Hours - The Color ofMoney 94 CHAPTER 6: The Last Temptation of Christ 116 CHAPTER 7: NewYorkStories—GoodFellas—CapeTear 146 CHAPTER 8: TheAgeofInnocence-APersonalJourney 176 chapter9: Casino 198 appendix: The Last Temptation of Christ - The Controversy 211, Filmography 218 Bibliography 242 Notes on the Editors 247 Index 248