Director's Study

My Director's Study

Chosen Director: Martin Scorsese

Biography:

Martin Scorsese is a 72 year old film director. He was born in Queens, New York City, New York. His career spans over 45 years, with his earliest being an assistant director on the documentary "Woodstock" in 1970, to his latest being an up and coming film called "The Irishman" to be released in 2017.

Filmography:

• Who's that knocking at my door (1967)
• Boxcar Bertha (1972)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• New York, New York (1977)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• The King of Comedy (1983)
• After Hours (1985)
• The Color of Money (1986)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• Casino (1995)
• Kundun (1997)
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Hugo (2011)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Silence (TBR 2016)
• The Irishman (TBR 2017)

*TBR = To be released

Why is Scorsese a interesting director?

Scorsese is an interesting director because most of his films (For example: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, etc.) are about living in a wealthy lifestyle for your whole life. This makes him unique because when you see this in a film, the audience will automatically think that this film was directed by Martin Scorsese.