With my Kubrick and De Palma threads a thing of the past I am now moving on to another of my favorite directors, Martin Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese was the second of two boys born to Charles and Catherine Scorsese (both of who made cameos in their son's films) on November 17, 1943. Scorsese became fascinated with movies at a very young age. His parents brought him to the theaters weekly, and he was also exposed to old Italian films on the television. After briefly considering becoming a minister, Scorsese decided to major in film and graduated from New York University in 1964. In 1972 he made his first major film, Boxcar Bertha. However, it was the 1973 film, Mean Streets, that put the young director on the map. And the rest as they say is history.

My favorite film from Scorsese is Mean Streets.

One of my favorite directors!

Goodfellas

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
After Hours
Cape Fear
Casino
Gangs of New York

Originally posted by little insomniac
One of my favorite directors!

Goodfellas

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
After Hours
Cape Fear
Casino
Gangs of New York

Kate, you are a woman with taste.:)

Originally posted by dukey
Kate, you are a woman with taste.:)

Aww, thank you. :)

My favorite Scorsese film is Taxi Driver. Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Color of Money, and King of Comedy are great films too.

Gangs of New York

Goodfellas

If we're talking about which is his best film, I'd have to vote for Gangs of New York, but I think my personal favorite might be After Hours. They're very different from each other so it's hard to rate one above the other.

"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

One of my favorite movie quotes of all time:

Alice: I don't sing with my ass!

Taxi Driver is probably my alltime favorite movie, it is definately top 5

Raging Bull is definitely his best.

For second place, it's a close call between Goodfellas and Taxi Driver.

Goodfellas, than "Raging Bull"

I can't wait for his Bob Dylan movie though!!!!

I know I'm the minority here - but I have yet to see a film by Scorsese that I've liked. The closest was New York, New York, but despite Liza, even that was a waste of time. Scorsese is way too violent, and I never see the point to any of his films. Taxi Driver - ick, Gangs of New York - double ick. I even hated The Age of Innocence - and I was expecting to love that one. I really can't appreciate his films at all.

Originally posted by Liza
I know I'm the minority here - but I have yet to see a film by Scorsese that I've liked. The closest was New York, New York, but despite Liza, even that was a waste of time. Scorsese is way too violent, and I never see the point to any of his films. Taxi Driver - ick, Gangs of New York - double ick. I even hated The Age of Innocence - and I was expecting to love that one. I really can't appreciate his films at all.

New York, New York is certianly not one of Scorsese's better films. His films are rather on the "intense" side and are not for everyone. This is why his films tend not to perform well at the box office. Cape Fear was his highest grossing film at $79 million at the box office.

"Casino," and "Goodfellas."

Originally posted by Liza
I know I'm the minority here - but I have yet to see a film by Scorsese that I've liked. The closest was New York, New York, but despite Liza, even that was a waste of time. Scorsese is way too violent, and I never see the point to any of his films. Taxi Driver - ick, Gangs of New York - double ick. I even hated The Age of Innocence - and I was expecting to love that one. I really can't appreciate his films at all. You may be in the minority in this thread, but there's no right or wrong when it comes to personal taste. Just because a director is good at what he does, not everyone is automatically going to like his work. I do want to comment, though, on the point you raised about violence. It's the violent nature of many of his films that prevents me from being a huge Scorsese fan in general. I greatly respect his talent, but I just prefer not to see a lot of graphic violence. I've seen most of his films once or twice, and he's an excellent director, but there aren't many that I would want to watch repeatedly. (I feel basically the same way about Francis Ford Coppola.)

The thing that impressed me about Gangs of New York, though, is that while it is a film about a brutally violent chapter in U.S. history, the way that violence was depicted was far less graphic than I'd expected. Both the direction and the editing of the fight scenes were handled beautifully, I think, in that the individual acts were set up but never seen in their entirety. As soon as an act was begun and the nature of the brutality to follow was conveyed, the camera cut away or pulled back. We saw enough to know it was bad, but we weren't forced to dwell on the actual blood and gore. It was still disturbing, but not graphically so. It's one of the few Scorsese films that I know I'll want to watch again.

I picked Taxi Driver :)