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Martin Scorsese: Works
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(AP) -- Martin Scorsese came to Cannes on a quest to save world cinema. Once he leaves, the great American filmmaker hopes to get to work on a foreign picture of his own. Scorsese is turning his sights to a story of missionaries in 17th century Japan. Silence is a long-cherished project that he hopes to shoot partially in Japan in summer 2008. Although it's a period piece, Scorsese thinks it has lessons for America today.
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In recent times, Scorsese has been able to establish a place of prestige for himself within film culture. He has made two documentaries on national cinemas (United States and Italy) and has appeared in numerous history of cinema documentaries as a talking head authority. He continues to be a noted figure within film preservation, and has even extended into editing a series of reissued film books for the Modern Library. All of this cultural work on the part of Scorsese is perhaps necessary, given his lack of commercial success. By establishing himself as an important authority on film culture, he has almost guaranteed that he will be a powerful and influential figure within the future of American film.
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Martin Scorsese's apparent obsessiveness concerning his film work appears to have been a large stress on his four previous marriages. Here is information about Martin's marriage to Helen Morris, his daughters, quotes, and more.
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Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,[1] machismo, and the violence endemic in American society. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era.[2] He earned an MFA in film directing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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"When you cast a part with the right person," says Scorsese, "somebody with intelligence and amazing creativity, more than half your job is done. Even if things are lost as you go along in the editing room, the work has been put into the character by her, just by her presence. Even if lines are lost, the looks are right and that's very hard to get."
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