Best Selling Books by Martin Scorsese

Collected interviews with the man who has been called the greatest living American film director

Martin Scorsese''s challenging and often controversial films are a record of his personal achievement in modern cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull--these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that Scorsese has made his own. The interviews that make up this book reveal a man who, like Michael Powell and Francois Truffant, has an unbridled passion for film that is evident in every frame of his work. 85 photos.

With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese''s life and work. He reveals which films are most autobiographical, and what he was trying to explore and accomplish in other films.

A look at American film from the silent movies to movies of the 1970s, including Duel in the Sun, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Searchers, Scarface, Intolerance, The Ten Commandments, A Star Is Born, Cat People, Barry Lyndon, Citizen Kane, Public Enemy, East of Eden, Shock Corridor, Faces, The Naked Spur, Bandwagon, and Force of Evil.

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? François Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book focuses first on the process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically into visual forms and patterns. It also tries to define the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut''s creative work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Isabelle Adjani, Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films.

Henry Hill grows up in the 1950s, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood where Italian-American gangsters walk tall in the streets, commanding the respect of their peers. Young Henry dreams that one day he too might be a professional ''wiseguy'' - a ''goodfella''. His wishes come true with remarkable speed once he teams up with renowned hoodlum Jimmy Conway and his alarmingly psychotic pal Tommy DeVito. Henry embarks on an everyday life of crime which takes him from rags to gaudy riches, in and out of the federal penitentiary and under the unwelcome spotlight of the FBI. As the 1970s turn sour Henry finds himself at the sharp end of the cocaine trade, increasingly adrift from his extended mobster ''family'' and forced to make a tough decision about his future. The film that re-established Martin Scorsese''s eminence among American directors after years of professional difficulties, ''GoodFellas'' is a tour de force which lays bare the crude and venal motives which drive a happy band of thieves and murderers.

With the intensity of a Jacobean tragedy, Casino unfolds its tale of a love triangle between a gambler, his wife, and his henchman amid the glittering, festering Babylon of Las Vegas. The film makes daring use of voice-over and rapidly shifting points of view and time frame, leaving conventional film language far behind.

From the cinema verit� of the sixties to softer fare like Splash, New York has provided some of the most iconic moments on film. Beginning with a survey of such classics as Breakfast at Tiffany''s, Scenes from the City captures how the changing face of New York, as well as the founding of the MOFTB, have contributed to a particular school of film characterized most emphatically in the street-style work of directors as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. With over 200 stills and contributions from noted New York film personalities such as Sidney Lumet and Nora Ephron, the book also includes rare, unpublished, behind-the-scenes shots and stories from the quintessential New York filmmaker himself--Woody Allen. With a special section on the landmark TV series, commercials and music videos filmed in New York, Scenes from the City is an affectionate and vivacious ovation for this captivating "character" that rarely receives billing but always steals the show.

Questo libro raccoglie, tradotti per la prima volta fuori dalla Francia, gli articoli scritti da Martin Scorsese per una delle più autorevoli riviste di cinema del mondo (e in particolare quelli realizzati per il numero 500, di cui Scorsese è stato curatore), nonché interviste e conversazioni finora inedite in Italia. Il regista americano racconta in prima persona i suoi capolavori, dal rapporto con gli attori (Robert De Niro su tutti) alla sceneggiatura, dalla colonna sonora agli aspetti tecnici del montaggio, e commenta con la passione del cinefilo e l''esperienza del grande maestro i film che ha amato e l''hanno ispirato, e lo stile dei grandi autori di cui ha subito il fascino fin da ragazzo. Aneddoti dal set, ritratti di amici, riflessioni teoriche, ricordi familiari e dichiarazioni di poetica: una raccolta appassionante e imperdibile per qualunque fan del vero cinema d''autore.

En 1996, la revista Cahiers du cinéma pidió a Martin Scorsese --recién terminada su película Casino— que fuera el redactor jefe de su número 500. El cineasta norteamericano aceptó con entusiasmo y se convirtió a la vez en director, actor y narrador de un acontecimiento muy especial. Lo que resultó evidente es que, con Scorsese, el diálogo entre ambos lados del Atlántico no sólo es posible, sino también fructífero y estimulante, algo que él no cesa de alimentar como cineasta y como espectador bulímico. Mientras cuenta su vida, habla de cine. Y mientras habla de cine, de sus películas o de las de aquellos autores que admira, de hecho está contando su vida: Nueva York, Little Italy, su familia, los filmes de su infancia y adolescencia, su amistad con Robert De Niro o con los cineastas de su generación (Lucas, Coppola, Spielberg, De Palma...)... A los textos y entrevistas aparecidos en Cahiers se añaden en esta edición algunos escritos más recientes sobre Kundun o la música y elogios de Sam Fuller, Robert Mitchum y James Stewart. Así, en su cartografía íntima del cine, Scorsese consigue unir sin dificultades la tradición hollywoodiense con la modernidad europea.

Il 3 marzo 2016, a New York, padre Antonio Spadaro incontra a casa sua Martin Scorsese per parlare di Silence, il film che il regista italoamericano ha dedicato alle persecuzioni dei gesuiti in Giappone, e del suo rapporto con la fede. Quella prima chiacchierata, foriera di stimoli e suggestioni per entrambi, dà il via a un dialogo che prosegue ancora oggi. Un discorso che, attraverso vari incontri, affronta i temi cari a Scorsese: dall’infanzia in una New York molto diversa da quella che conosciamo ora fino ad arrivare al recente e bellissimo Killers of the Flower Moon, passando per profonde riflessioni sulla fede e la grazia che, in modo più o meno velato, traspaiono dalle sue opere. Tra i frutti del dialogo, anche lo storico incontro tra papa Francesco e Scorsese e la scrittura, da parte di quest’ultimo, di una prima sceneggiatura per un film dedicato alla vita di Gesù, per rispondere a un appello del Santo Padre agli artisti. In queste pagine, Spadaro e Scorsese ripercorrono la carriera del regista premio Oscar, i suoi pensieri sulla fede, le paure e le ispirazioni, donando al lettore un ritratto nuovo e inedito di uno dei principali esponenti contemporanei della settima arte.

Una mirada única al universo espiritual y creativo de uno de los grandes maestros del cine contemporáneo. El 3 de marzo de 2016, el padre Antonio Spadaro se reunió en Nueva York con Martin Scorsese para hablar de Silencio, la película que Scorsese dedicó a las persecuciones que sufrieron los jesuitas en Japón, y de la íntima relación del director con la fe. Esa primera conversación, rica en estímulos e inspiradora para ambos, dio inicio a un diálogo que continúa hasta hoy y que, a través de varios encuentros, aborda temas fundamentales para Scorsese, como su infancia en Nueva York o sus reflexiones sobre la fe y la gracia, que, de una u otra manera, han estado siempre presentes en sus películas. Spadaro y Scorsese recorren en estas páginas la carrera del premiado director, sus miedos e inspiraciones, brindando al lector un retrato nuevo e inédito de uno de los principales exponentes contemporáneos del séptimo arte, así como el encuentro que mantuvo con el papa Francisco, que dio pie a la escritura de un primer guion para llevar a la pantalla la vida de Jesús.

A beautifully illustrated companion to acclaimed director Martin Scorsese''s new film, this book includes the complete screenplay, interviews, and color stills from the set.

The complete script of the five-time Academy Award(R) nominated film, with a lengthy introduction with details on the behind-the-scenes production, photos, and a special section in which the authors discuss the 22 films that influenced them. 24 b/w photos. The Newmarket Shooting Script Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film''s shooting script, as chosen by the writer and/or director, exclusive notes on the film''s production and history, stills, and credits.

"An invaluable analysis of the director''s art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander ''Sandy'' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. But after retiring from film-making in 1969, he then spent nearly 25 years teaching his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Mackendrick produced hundreds of pages of masterly handouts and sketches, designed to guide his students to a finer understanding of how to write a story, and then use those devices peculiar to cinema in order to tell that story as effectively as possible. Gathered and edited in this collection, Mackendrick''s teachings reveal that he had the talent not only to make great films, but also to articulate the process with a clarity and insight that will still inspire any aspirant film-maker"--Abstract

Depuis son arrivée sur la scène internationale avec Mean Streets puis Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese n''a cessé de surprendre et d''enthousiasmer son public, construisant au fil du temps une o euvre majeure de l''histoire du cinéma. Sur le modèle du Hitchcock par Truffaut et des Conversations avec Billy Wilder de Cameron Crowe, il nous offre aujourd''hui le livre qu''on attendait depuis longtemps. Dans ces entretiens au long cours avec Richard Shickel, l''un des plus célèbres critiques américains, illustrés de nombreuses photos inédites, le metteur en scène, connu pour son insatiable curiosité et sa connaissance encyclopédique et vivante du monde du cinéma, revient sur son parcours, depuis son enfance à Little Italy jusqu''à Shutter Island. Outre la genèse et le tournage de ses films, sur lesquels il nous confie bon nombre d''anecdotes inédites, Martin Scorsese nous laisse entrer dans son intimité, évoquant au fil des discussions ses passions multiples, l''évolution de la société américaine, dont il est l''un des portraitistes les plus lucides, ou encore son rapport à la spiritualité. Ce sont, pour finir, de véritables mémoires en forme de conversations que nous offre ce créateur protéiforme, doublés d''une vision originale du cinéma, de la culture et du monde d''aujourd''hui.

Martin Scorsese fait ici le récit illustré de son voyage personnel dans l''histoire du cinéma américain. Cet itinéraire d''un cinéaste-cinéphile est celui de sa propre formation, et il ne suit pas, loin s''en faut, les chemins balisés par les historiens du cinéma. Scorsese parle des " films de sa vie " - œuvres prestigieuses des grands metteurs en scène issus des Major Compagnies, ou séries "B", ces films de genre sous-évalués ou carrément oubliés du grand public. Il souhaite ainsi jouer le rôle de guide, avec cette idée forte qu''il faut transmettre un certain héritage aux jeunes générations. Ce qu''il célèbre ici, c''est le CINÉMA et la mise en scène : les cinéastes qui ont su utiliser à plein les potentialités de cet art. Le fil conducteur de Scorsese est en fait l''analyse des moyens de subversion que les cinéastes ont su utiliser pour pouvoir travailler au sein du système des studios tout en parvenant à préserver l''intégrité de leur art. Parmi les films phares, Duel au soleil (King Vidor), Les Ensorcelés (Vincente Minnelli), La Prisonnière du désert (John Ford), Impitoyable (Clint Eastwood), La Grande Évasion (Raoul Walsh), Scarface (Howard Hawks), Le Lys brisé (David W. Griffith), Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller), La Féline (Jacques Tourneur), L''Enfer de la corruption (Abraham Polonsky) et Faces (John Cassavetes)... Et c''est la voix de Scorsese, sa propre vision, qui résonne tout au long de ce livre : " De jeunes metteurs en scène me demandent souvent: "Pourquoi devrais-je aller voir de vieux films ? " J''ai réalisé un certain nombre de films, ces vingt dernières années, et la seule réponse que je peux leur faire est celle-ci : "je me considère encore comme un étudiant. Plus je fais des films, plus je réalise que je ne sais pas grand-chose. Et je cherche toujours l''œuvre ou l''homme qui m''apprendra davantage. je dis aux jeunes réalisateurs et aux étudiants : faites ce que faisaient les peintres d''antan. Etudiez les vieux maîtres. Enrichissez votre palette. Elargissez votre gamme. Il reste encore tant à apprendre..." "