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Three By Scorsese
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Director:
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Martin Scorsese |
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B&W
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English
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Length:
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134 mins.
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Available Media:
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16mm
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| Description |
Kino International is proud to release a program of five rarely-seen films by America's greatest living director, Martin Scorcese. In Italian American (1974, 48 minutes, color) Scorcese invites the viewer into the home of his late parents, Catherin and Charles (who have appeared in Goodfellas, Mean Streets and Raging Bull. There they discuss everything from their immigrant heritage, on-camera behavior and the family's secret spaghetti sauce recipe. To the tune of Bunny Berigan's "I Can't Get Started," a morning shave turns into a musical bloodletting in The Big Shave (1968, 6 muntes, color), ad early black comedy gem unavailable for years. In American Boy (1978, 55 minutes, Color), Scorsese "interviews" Steven Prince, best remembered as the peripatetic gun salesman Easy Andy in Taxi Driver Prince's accounts of his tragicomic upbringing as an army brat, his travels as a rock band's road manager and subsequent heroin addiction are punctuated by Neil Young's "Time Fades Away"
Short films availabe in a set of three or five films.
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? 1963, 9 minutes B/W, A young writer grows increasingly obsessed with a framed photograph hanging on his wall. It's Not Just You, Murray! 1964, 15 minutes, B/W, A small-time hoodlum named Murray thrives on his friendship with Joe, oblivious to the fact that he is being exploited by his longtime pal. |
| Critical Acclaim |
"The bravest thing Scorsese has ever done."
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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