Foreword / Martin Scorsese -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Beginning -- Introduction -- I call first -- Who's that knocking at my door -- Reconsideration -- Woodstock : an interview with Martin Scorsese & Company -- Boxcar Bertha -- Mean streets -- Alice doesn't live here anymore -- Taxi driver -- An interview with Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader -- New York, New York -- Reconsideration -- The last waltz -- pt. 2. Achieving -- Introduction -- Raging bull -- The king of comedy -- Scorsese : king of romantic pain -- Reconsideration -- After hours -- Reconsideration -- The color of money -- The last temptation of Christ -- Scorsese's Last temptation -- Reconsideration -- New York stories : "life lessons" -- Martin Scorsese and his "New York" story -- pt. 3. Establishing -- Introduction -- GoodFellas -- Why GoodFellas was the best film of 1990 -- Cape fear -- The age of innocence -- The innocence of Martin Scorsese -- Casino -- De Niro, Pesci, Scorsese tell a shocking mob story in Casino -- pt. 4. Reflecting -- Introduction -- Wexner Center for the Arts interview -- pt. 5. Venturing -- Introduction -- Kundun -- Scorsese learns from those who went before him -- Reconsideration -- Bringing out the dead -- Bringing out Scorsese -- Gangs of New York -- Gangs all here for Scorsese -- The aviator -- Howard's end : Scorsese and The aviator -- No direction home : Bob Dylan -- The departed -- Shine a light -- pt. 6. Masterpieces -- Introduction -- Mean streets -- Taxi driver -- Raging bull -- GoodFellas -- The age of innocence -- Index.
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"Scorsese by Ebert offers the first record of America's most respected film critic's engagement with the works of America's greatest living director. The book chronicles every single feature film in Scorsese's considerable oeuvre, from his debut in 1967's I Call First, later renamed Who's That Knocking at My Door, to his 2008 release, the Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Light." "Here Ebert puts Scorsese's career in illuminating perspective, exploring the different phases of his development and the abiding themes (many of which reflect Scorsese's Catholicism) that give his work such complexity and depth. All of Ebert's incisive reviews of Scorsese's individual films are here, of course, but there is much more. In the course of eleven interviews done over almost forty years, the book includes Scorsese's own insights on both his accomplishments and disappointments. A career-spanning interview from 1997, one of the longest ever conducted with Scorsese, appears here for the first time. Ebert has also written and included six new reconsiderations of the director's less commented upon films, as well as a substantial introduction that provides a framework for understanding both Scorcese and his profound impact on American cinema."--Jacket.