New York, Nov. 17. New York filmmaker Martin Scorsese, of Italian origin, who celebrated his 80th birthday on Thursday as a cinema icon, made his directorial debut with the feature film Who’s Knocking on My Door (1968), which was soon followed by successful ones: Bad roads” (1973) and “Taxi driver” (1976), where two of his fetishes were already seen: the Big Apple and Robert de Niro.
Another ode to the city that never sleeps was the musical “New York, New York” (1977), with Liza Minnelli and De Niro. Although the tape was not well received, the soundtrack, composed of the song of the same name, became a New York anthem after gaining fame with Frank Sinatra’s version.
Scorsese, who was born in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens and educated at New York University, where he later taught, ended that decade in San Francisco with “The Last Waltz” (1978).
In the eighties he directed one of his most acclaimed productions: “Raging Bull” (1980), also starring De Niro who had to transform his body to embody the ups and downs of boxing champion Jake LaMotta.
Despite recovering the clamor of viewers, due to his drug problems following a personal crisis, Scorsese has begun to choose his next films more for final verification than for the project itself, as was the case with “The King of comedy” (1982) or “The color of money” (1986).
But the course of his career changed again with “Jo, what a night!” (1985), where New York, and especially the SoHo neighborhood, was an extra protagonist. With this film, the director won the best director award at Cannes.
In “New York Stories” (1989), a film made up of three stories that have the Big Apple in common, Scorsese shares the title of director with Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen, two other directors who are also synonymous with the city asphalt covered by taxis Detective stories.
He went to Las Vegas to narrate the crime drama Casino (1995), another icon of American gangster cinema, but returned to his hometown with the acclaimed “Gangsters of New York” (2002), where another of his favorite actors. : Leonardo DiCaprio, protagonist of five of his productions. De Niro, for his part, worked on eight of his films.
DiCaprio also starred in “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) to tell an acid and ruthless portrait of the excesses, scams and egos that dominate New York’s financial district.
For his latest film ‘The Irishman’ (2019), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Scorsese has been nominated nearly a dozen times, but only “The Departed” (2006) has won the statuette.
Her latest work was the miniseries “Suppose New York is a city” (2021), in which the breast is discovered through the eyes of the writer Fran Lebowitz through her walks and interviews with Martin Scorsese.
Sarah Yanez-Richards
