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Renowned Italian-American filmmaker Martin Scorsese was presented with a special gift during his recent visit to Polizzi Generosa, Sicily. Nunzia Imburgia, president of the Sellaro Committee of Polizzi Generosa, donated a copy of Carmelo Cutuli's biography of Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro, the founder of the Sons of Italy in America. The book, which is also...

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Now an honorary citizen of Polizzi Generosa, already an Italian citizen since 2018, Martin Scorsese in the town of his Sicilian ancestors, looking out from the enchanting belvedere of the Holy Trinity, wonders what must have prompted the 19-year-old Francesco Paolo Scozzese (surname mispronounced in the U.S. as Scorsese), who would become his grand...

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Martin Scorsese is set to be honored with a life achievement award by Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin. The director will receive the museum’s Stella della Mole Award on October 7 in a gala ceremony in the 85-meter-high atrium of its home, the Mole Antonelliana, which was originally conceived as a synagogue. The followin...

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Big Apple celebrities Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Patti Smith have joined in the fight to save the decades-old Elizabeth Street Garden from being torn down to make way for affordable senior housing. The three cultural icons penned letters this summer imploring Mayor Eric Adams to have a change of heart and maintain the leafy green haven and...

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Martin Scorsese is going back to his Sicilian roots — he’s set to work on a documentary about shipwrecks off the coast of Sicily that will see him return to Polizzi Generosa, the Italian town where his paternal grandparents were born. The untitled project, first reported by Italian news agency ANSA, is based off the work of American archeologist Li...

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The Tribeca Festival is celebrating the monumental anniversaries of two Italian-American classics: series “The Sopranos” and Martin Scorsese‘s “Mean Streets.” The 2024 Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, takes place June 5 through 16 and unveiled its lineup of talks with iconic artists, critically-acclaimed directors, and multi-hyphenate entertaine...

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Martin Scorsese, 81, is planning to shoot two films back to back: the first about Jesus, the second a Frank Sinatra biopic. Leonardo DiCaprio would play Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence his wife Ava Gardner. Sony is currently the frontrunner to helm the project. This is quite the news given that the project had originally been scrapped, for a variety...

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Last May, after “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Martin Scorsese traveled to Rome with his wife, Helen Morris, to attend a conference titled “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination.” There, the director announced that he had responded to an appeal by Pope Francis to artists “in the only way I know how:...

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The epic directorial career of Martin Scorsese is getting an ambitious comic homage, taking fans through the career of the once-in-a-lifetime director. The comic sees Scorsese take the reader on a tour of his life and career, including pop culture-shaping accomplishments Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Last Temptation of Christ. Now, Screen Rant ca...

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Francesca Scorsese is revealing how she convinced her famous dad Martin Scorsese to appear in her TikTok videos. Francesca, 24, who served as the behind-the-scenes creative director on her dad’s upcoming Super Bowl commercial with Squarespace, tells PEOPLE of their TikTok videos, "I thought people were just going to be like, 'Holy crap, that's Mart...

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