The Fabulous Picture Show: Martin Scorsese
The director of ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Goodfellas’ told them how he fell in love with cinema as a child; about the filmmakers who influenced his storytelling, and revealed how he met his life-long friends and actors Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. Scorsese attracted critical attention with his debut feature film, ‘Who’s that Knocking on My Door,’ which began as a graduate student project at New York University. With ‘Mean Streets,’ he started making movies about what he knows best — New York City. ‘Taxi Driver’ won him the Palm D’or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but it was not until ‘The Departed’ — his 44th film — that he eventually won his long awaited Oscar for best director.
