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Martin Scorsese's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Image: Nehrams2020/Wikimedia Commons.
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The six best Scorsese scenes

1 June 2016
A curated selection of the master filmmaker's most iconic scenes

Dr Bruce Isaacs from the Film Studies program on the best scenes from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the best living film directors. As a major retrospective of his work opens at , Dr Bruce Isaacs from the ±¬ÁÏÍõ's Film Studies program dissects six classic Scorsese scenes.

1. Who's That Knocking at My Door

"Scorsese's first major film displays the precocious vision of a major new American filmmaker."

2. Mean Streets

"One the greatest film openings, this is Scorsese mashing realism and a Godardian free-spirited style."

3.     Taxi Driver

"‘You Talkin’ to Me?’ – One of the iconic sequences of the New Hollywood." .  

4.     Raging Bull

"Scorsese's return to an American neo-realism, and one of the greatest of all method performances from De Niro." .

5.     Goodfellas  

"The world of the gangster captured in a glorious steadicam move." .

6.     Hugo

"Scorsese displays the elegance of a 3D digital film style." .

is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at the ±¬ÁÏÍõ. All videos courtesy of .

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