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Screen legends Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have collaborated successfully for decades. Over time, Scorsese has seen something of himself in the characters De Niro has played, he told the BBC today. Speaking on the Radio4 Today program, the Killers of the Flower Moon director praised De Niro for “touching a truth about what it is to be a huma...

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Martin Scorsese has now earned more Oscar nominations for best director than anyone alive. The Academy nominated the 81-year-old icon for his film Killers of the Flower Moon on Tuesday. Scorsese now has 10 best director nominations, surpassing Steven Spielberg, who has nine. Scorsese has won the category just once — for 2006’s The Departed. On that...

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Martin Scorsese will be honored for his lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, organizers said Thursday. The 81-year-old director, whose extensive work ranges from decades-old classics such as “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” to this year's “Killers of the Flower Moon,” will be given an honorary Golden Bear — the...

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Martin Scorsese—responsible for Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Killers of the Flower Moon, and far too many more to name here—is widely considered our greatest living film director. But who is the greatest director of our greatest director? That would be Francesca Scorsese, his 23-year-old daughter and a filmmaker in her own right. Earlier...

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The Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University will present two film screenings by award-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee in November as part of its year-long exploration of the Italian immigrant experience. The series, titled “Nuovo Mondo: A Century of Migrations from and to Italy”, will present a screening of acclaime...

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Over the past seven decades, no one has explored the story of America in the 20th century quite like Martin Scorsese. The 80-year-old director's most recent films, The Irishman (2019) and Killers Of The Flower Moon, out this Friday, are big ticket affairs that ask even bigger questions about life, death and everything in-between. But 49 years ago,...

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It’s one of the most iconic scenes in one of the greatest movies in American history, and it has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot. It’s mob capo Paulie Cicero, played by the late Paul Sorvino. He’s in a minimum-security prison with the rest of the wise guys. They’ve bribed the guards so they can have all the stuff they need for a prop...

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Aside from themes like redemption, nihilism, and the Italian-American lifestyle, what many of Martin Scorsese’s works have in common are cameo appearances by his parents, Catherine and Charles Scorsese – and here’s every one of them. Martin Scorsese’s career as a filmmaker began in 1967 with the independent drama movie Who’s That Knocking On My Doo...

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In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn’t even been published yet. Circulating in galley proofs, it was the latest non-fiction work from author David Grann, whose 2009 book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon had recently been filmed by James Gray and produced by Plan B. His new book was another mouthful — Killers of th...

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Martin Scorsese's new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, "Killers of the Flower Moon", will get its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, organizers confirmed on Friday. It will be the first time the veteran filmmaker presents a new film at the festival since he won best director there in 1986 for "After Hours". Scorsese won the top P...

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