Martin Scorsese at Criticker

Martin Scorsese
	Date of Birth: Nov 17, 1942 Country: USA Biography: After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style Total Films at Criticker: 75 - You've Seen 0
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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2010)

Summary: A documentary that looks at how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

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Stones in Exile (2010)

Summary: In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones reluctantly departed the UK to take up residence in France

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...Men filmen ar min alskarinna (2010)

Summary: Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera. (imdb)

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

Summary: In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus.

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A Letter to Elia (2010)

Summary: Filmmaking legend Martin Scorsese explains how seeing the films of Elia Kazan as a kid and young man taught him that the cinema could be an expression of his own life and issues. The filmmaker uses copious clips from Kazan's work in order to paint an autobiographical portrait on the power of movies. (Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide)

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Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)

Summary: Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact. (imdb)

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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

Summary: Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. (imdb)

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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)

Summary: Documentary about the career of legendary insult comic, Don Rickles. (supergloo)

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Painting with Light (2007)

Summary: An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff. (imdb)

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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

Summary: As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before... (imdb)

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The Key to Reserva (2007)

Summary: The Key to Reserva: Scorcese films a "lost" Hitchcock script. A briliant advertisement and a complex homage to Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermmann. (YouTube)

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Refuge (2005)

Summary: Since the beginning of the 20th Century, Westerners have been traveling to the East in search of spiritual wisdom. By the 1950's Eastern meditation masters were coming to the West and establishing meditation centers here. This film is the story of those journeys, East and West, towards refuge. The story of Refuge is told by a series of first time interviews with renowned filmmakers who have made major motion pictures about Buddhism and by accomplished Tibetan masters who have established themselves here, in the West. (Refuge Film)

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The Eye of the Beholder (2005)

Summary: A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom. It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him. (imdb)

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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

Summary: A look into the evolution, importance and current role of film editors. (doctor7)

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Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)

Summary: Director Martin Scorsese discusses his life growing up in Manhattan and his filmmaking career. (imdb)

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Shark Tale (2004)

Summary: Oscar is a fast-talking little fish whose big dreams have a habit of landing him in hot water. Lenny is a great white shark with a sensitive side and a secret - he's a vegetarian. When a great white lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and the truth about Lenny makes him an outcast, the two become the most unlikely of friends.

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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004)

Summary: Film-makers, performers, genre authorities and selected high-profile fans count down the most chilling moments in cinematic history. (imdb)

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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)

Summary: Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickel's dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin.

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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

Summary: For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)

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Gangs of New York (2002)

Summary: Having seen his father killed in a major gang fight in New York, young Amsterdam Vallon is spirited away for his own safety. Some years later, he returns to the scene of his father's death, the notorious Five Points district in New York. It's 1863 and lower Manhattan is run by gangs, the most powerful of which is the Natives, headed by Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. He believes that America should belong to native-born Americans and opposes the waves of immigrants, mostly Irish, entering the city. (imdb)

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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Summary: The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise. (imdb)

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My Voyage to Italy (1999)

Summary: "I saw these movies. They had a powerful effect on me. You should see them." That's Martin Scorsese's message for this doc.

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A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999)

Summary: Gregory Peck tells stories and answers questions about his career in the Barter Theatre. Interspersed are clips from Peck's films and from interviews recorded over the years and vérité contemporary footage of visiting with his daughter Cecilia before and after the birth of her son, receiving the National Medal of Arts, chatting with Lauren Bacall and with Martin Scorsese, etc. Throughout, Peck is informal, candid, and wry. (imdb)

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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Summary: Surrounded by the injured and the dying, EMS paramedic Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.

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The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)

Summary: In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director... (imdb)

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The Making of an Englishman (1995)

Summary: A personal documentary by the grandsons of Emeric Pressburger who created some of the classics of the British cinema. They retrace his journey in exile from Hungary and five other European countries, arriving in England in 1935, interviewing his friends and colleagues and using home movies, diary extracts and film clips.

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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

Summary: Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century's great directors and film historians... (imdb)

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Search and Destroy (1995)

Summary: A would-be movie producer (Griffin Dunne) strives to convince a self-help guru (Dennis Hopper) to let him film his book. As the guru is only interested in money, the producer solicits the help of a shady businessman (Christopher Walken) and the guru's own secretary (Ileana Douglas), who wants to write movie scripts (a horror story about brain-scraping monsters). (imdb)

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Quiz Show (1994)

Summary: An idealistic young lawyer (Rob Morrow) working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focusses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story. (imdb)

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I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited (1994)

Summary: Nancy Franklin' was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see the places where it was made and to find out more about the people who made it. This documentary retraces her steps on a subsequent visit. (imdb)

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The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1994)

Summary: This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of My Fair Lady... (imdb)

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The Age of Innocence (1993)

Summary: Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a ravishing romance about three wealthy 1870s New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle. (Sony)

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Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

Summary: David Merrill (Robert DeNiro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. (imdb)

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)

Summary: A collection of tales based upon the dreams of Kurosawa.

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The Grifters (1990)

Summary: When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)

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Round Midnight (1986)

Summary: Paris, 1959. The tenor sax player who has just been booked at the Blue Note was once known as one of the greats... (imdb)

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Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1986)

Summary: Documentary about the career of director David Cronenberg, with clips from his films and interviews with friends, colleagues, film critics and Cronenberg himself. (imdb)

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After Hours (1985)

Summary: Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over (imdb)

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The White Swan (1983)

Summary: The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually formed her own troupe. She made a successful world tour together with Viktor d'Andre, who was her husband and manager. (imdb)

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The King of Comedy (1983)

Summary: Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.

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Il pap'occhio (1980)

Summary: The Pope (Manfred Freyburger) is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. (moviefone.com)

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Raging Bull (1980)

Summary: When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter portrayed in this Martin Scorsese film by Robert De Niro. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone... (imdb)

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The Last Waltz (1978)

Summary: A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band. (imdb)

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American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978)

Summary: American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family.

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Taxi Driver (1976)

Summary: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out. (IMDB.com)

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Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973)

Summary: Director Martin Scorsese revisits his hometown, Lower East Side (Little Italy), New York City with old friends Joseph Morale and Robert Uricola. The town and people on which Mean Streets was based.

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Mean Streets (1973)

Summary: A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy. (imdb)

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Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Summary: During the depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

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Directed by John Ford (1971)

Summary: Interviewing some of Ford's most frequent collaborators, Bogdanovich examines the life and films of one of America's greatest directors.

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Street Scenes (1970)

Summary: In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C... (imdb)

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George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)

Summary: The film follows Harrison's story from his early life in Liverpool, the success of Beatlemania, his travels to India, the influence of Indian culture in his music, and his relevance and importance as a member of The Beatles.

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Hugo (2011)

Summary: Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. (imdb)

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Public Speaking (2010)

Summary: A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences. (imdb)

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Shutter Island (2010)

Summary: Two U.S. Marshalls are sent to a federal institution for the criminally insane to capture a violent female escapee.

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A Letter to Elia (2010)

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

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Stones in Exile (2010)

Summary: In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones reluctantly departed the UK to take up residence in France

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Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2010)

Summary: A documentary that looks at how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

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...Men filmen ar min alskarinna (2010)

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Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)

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Shine a Light (2008)

Summary: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band. (imdb)

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The Key to Reserva (2007)

Summary: The Key to Reserva: Scorcese films a "lost" Hitchcock script. A briliant advertisement and a complex homage to Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermmann. (YouTube)

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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)

Summary: Documentary about the career of legendary insult comic, Don Rickles. (supergloo)

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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

Summary: Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. (imdb)

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Painting with Light (2007)

Summary: An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff. (imdb)

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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

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The Departed (2006)

Summary: The lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge...

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The Eye of the Beholder (2005)

Summary: A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom. It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him. (imdb)

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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

Summary: A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star. (imdb)

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Refuge (2005)

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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004)

Summary: Film-makers, performers, genre authorities and selected high-profile fans count down the most chilling moments in cinematic history. (imdb)

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Shark Tale (2004)

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Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)

Summary: Director Martin Scorsese discusses his life growing up in Manhattan and his filmmaking career. (imdb)

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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

Summary: A look into the evolution, importance and current role of film editors. (doctor7)

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The Aviator (2004)

Summary: A biographical chronicle which charts the early years of famous tycoon, Howard Hughes, whose eclectic career spanned across everything from oil, to film, casinos, and aviation.

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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

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Feel Like Going Home (2003)

Summary: Musician Corey Harris travels through Mississippi and on to West Africa, exploring the roots of the music. (pbs.org)

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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)

Summary: Narrated by Sydney Pollack, film critic Richard Schickel's dazzling two-hour plus documentary to one of the towering figures in film: Charles Chaplin.

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Gangs of New York (2002)

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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Summary: The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise. (imdb)

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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

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A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999)

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My Voyage to Italy (1999)

Summary: "I saw these movies. They had a powerful effect on me. You should see them." That's Martin Scorsese's message for this doc.

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Kundun (1997)

Summary: The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders -- Tibet's Dali Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.

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The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)

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The Making of an Englishman (1995)

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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

Summary: Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century's great directors and film historians... (imdb)

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Casino (1995)

Summary: This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed... (imdb)

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Search and Destroy (1995)

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The Key to Reserva (2007)

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