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- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The films of Powell and Pressburger significantly influenced a young Scorsese, especially the 1948 ballet drama "The Red Shoes."
- Roger Corman. Legendary B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman ranks among the most influential people in Hollywood history. Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, and James Cameron all got early breaks under the producer's tutelage, and so did Martin Scorsese.
- Kenneth Anger. Kenneth Anger was an experimental filmmaker known for "Fireworks," "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome," and especially "Scorpio Rising," which Scorsese saw at a private screening in the mid-1960s.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini. In a DGA conversation with Quentin Tarantino, Scorsese cited Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Accattone" as a key influence of his youth. Scorsese caught the film around the same time as John Cassavetes' "Shadows," and the two movies became a double bill of influence.
"This Billy Wilder film was so tough and brutal in its cynicism that it died a sudden death at the box office, and they re-released it under the title Big Carnival, which didn’t help. Chuck Tatum is a reporter who’s very modern--he’ll do anything to get the story, to make up the story!
Aug 12, 2021 · Martin Scorsese was born in 1942 in New York City, and was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films. In five decades of Hollywood film production, Scorsese has written and directed some of the most classic, lasting, and iconic movies of all time (including a few that are considered the greatest films ever made).
85 movies that influenced Martin Scorsese. 1. The Third Man (1949) Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Feb 24, 2012 · Fast Company’s in-depth profile of Martin Scorsese for the How To Live A Creative Life issue had a compelling by-product: this list of 85 films that the director said most influenced him. When ...
Jul 15, 2024 · Considered an important influence on the French New Wave, the movie was included on Scorsese’s list of the best widescreen films. —WC ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ (dir. Sergio Leone, 1968)
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Feb 8, 2016 · In recent years, Scorsese has talked of the influence that the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s work had on Taxi Driver and the director’s filmmaking in general. Singling out The Merchant of Four Seasons, one of the New German Cinema auteurist’s most celebrated melodramas, Scorsese said “it had a kind of brutal honesty about the way the camera looked at the characters – at the actors”.
