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“Portrait Of An Emerging Artist As A Young Man”
By Raymond Benson
It is always fascinating to examine early works by a renowned filmmaker. Do we see stylistic and thematic elements that crop up more dynamically in the later, more well-known, popular pictures? Did the artist hit the ground running with a solid handle on the craft? How did the director evolve?
The Criterion Collection has released a compilation of five early shorts by Martin Scorsese that were made in the 1960s and 70s. All of them are 4K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks, and they are a joy.
Two of them date from when Scorsese was at NYU film school. What’s a Nice Girl Doing in a Place Like This? was made in 1963. It’s not quite ten minutes long, is a comedy, and consists of a multimedia approach containing film,...
“Portrait Of An Emerging Artist As A Young Man”
By Raymond Benson
It is always fascinating to examine early works by a renowned filmmaker. Do we see stylistic and thematic elements that crop up more dynamically in the later, more well-known, popular pictures? Did the artist hit the ground running with a solid handle on the craft? How did the director evolve?
The Criterion Collection has released a compilation of five early shorts by Martin Scorsese that were made in the 1960s and 70s. All of them are 4K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks, and they are a joy.
Two of them date from when Scorsese was at NYU film school. What’s a Nice Girl Doing in a Place Like This? was made in 1963. It’s not quite ten minutes long, is a comedy, and consists of a multimedia approach containing film,...
- 6/7/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Before Martin Scorsese became one of the greatest directors of all time there was “The Big Shave.” Before Taika Waititi directed a Marvel movie and won an Oscar for “Jojo Rabbit” there was “Two Cars, One Night.” Before Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay become two of our best working directors there was “Wasp” and “Small Deaths.” Most great directors start their careers with a great short film, several of which IndieWire has rounded up below for your streaming pleasure.
Of the selection below, short films by Andrea Arnold, Taika Waititi, Nacho Vigolando, and Marshall Curry all landed Oscar nominations in the Best Live Action Short Film Category. Both Arnold and Curry won the Academy Award for their shorts in their respective years. For Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky, the shorts below served as breakthrough moments as film school students at New York University and the American Film Institute, respectively.
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Of the selection below, short films by Andrea Arnold, Taika Waititi, Nacho Vigolando, and Marshall Curry all landed Oscar nominations in the Best Live Action Short Film Category. Both Arnold and Curry won the Academy Award for their shorts in their respective years. For Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky, the shorts below served as breakthrough moments as film school students at New York University and the American Film Institute, respectively.
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- 3/17/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Why Watch? In 1967, Martin Scorsese put out a short film with a simple concept and the kind of execution you’d expect from a young Martin Scorsese. In The Big Shave, a young man (Peter Bernuth) stands in front of mirror, picks up a razor, and gets rid of his stubble. And then some. Obviously there are surprises in store. It’s Scorsese. The result is an experimental work (completely with incongruous jazz music) that acts as a striking anti-war metaphor, and an excellent lesson in how not to shave yourself. What Will It Cost? About 5 minutes. A New Short Film Every Weekday
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- 5/7/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As Scorsese's new film, Shutter Island, opens, our critic picks the great man's 10 best scenes
Mean Streets (1973) 'What's a mook?'
Scorsese's uncanny ear for dialogue was evident from his first masterpiece, Mean Streets, which is set in the heart of Little Italy among debt collectors and small-time hoods. Characters were called by names such as Johnny Boy, Joey Clams and Giovanni Cappa. In one classic pool-hall scene, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and David Proval start a fight - over the jukebox sounds of Please Mr Postman - after a barman calls one of them "a mook".
Goodfellas (1990) Tracking shot entrance to the Copacabana
Ray Liotta's Henry Hill takes new girlfriend Karen (Lorraine Bracco) to dinner. They enter the Copa via the back door, go through the kitchen and are led onto the dancefloor and to the best table in the house. In one unbroken three-and-a-half minutes' shot,...
Mean Streets (1973) 'What's a mook?'
Scorsese's uncanny ear for dialogue was evident from his first masterpiece, Mean Streets, which is set in the heart of Little Italy among debt collectors and small-time hoods. Characters were called by names such as Johnny Boy, Joey Clams and Giovanni Cappa. In one classic pool-hall scene, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and David Proval start a fight - over the jukebox sounds of Please Mr Postman - after a barman calls one of them "a mook".
Goodfellas (1990) Tracking shot entrance to the Copacabana
Ray Liotta's Henry Hill takes new girlfriend Karen (Lorraine Bracco) to dinner. They enter the Copa via the back door, go through the kitchen and are led onto the dancefloor and to the best table in the house. In one unbroken three-and-a-half minutes' shot,...
- 3/7/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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