Edward's Educational thoughts on Literacy: 03/03/10

Books I have read

A Hero and the Holocaust by David A Adler
Before the Dawn by Israel Zolli
C.W.Leadbeater Man How Whence and Whither
C.W.Leadbeater' 1925 Book The Masters and The Path
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Ervin Laszlo Science and the Akashic Field
Ervin Laszlo Science and the Re enchantment of the Cosmos
Faces of Courage Young Heroes of WWII by Sally Rogow
Great Escape by Kati Marton
Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker
King Matt The First by Janusz Korczak
Leo Szilard The Voice of the Dolphins
Night by Elie Wiesel
Pere Jacques: Resplendent in Victory
Rahel Varnhagen the life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt
Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton
The End of suffering by JJ Hurtak and Russell Targ
The Jesuits and the Third Reich
The Jew as Pariah by Hanna Arendt
The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall
The K I N G of C H I L D R E N by Janusz Korczak
The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel
We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker
When I Am Littrle Again by Janusz Korczak

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Scorsese Gangs of NY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese

Gangs of New York
Main article: Gangs of New York

Scorsese at the Gangs of New York screening at the Cannes Film Festival with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.
In 1999 Scorsese also produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers entitled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, also known as My Voyage to Italy. The documentary foreshadowed the director's next project, the epic Gangs of New York (2002), influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors such as Luchino Visconti and filmed in its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios.
With a production budget said to be in excess of $100 million, Gangs of New York was Scorsese's biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date. Like The Age of Innocence, it was set in 19th-century New York, although focusing on the other end of the social scale (and like that film, also starring Daniel Day-Lewis). The film also marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who since then has become a fixture in later Scorsese films.
The production was highly troubled with many rumors referring to the director's conflict with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein.[35] Despite denials of artistic compromise, Gangs of New York revealed itself to be the director's most conventional film: standard film tropes which the director had traditionally avoided, such as characters existing purely for exposition purposes and explanatory flashbacks, here surfaced in abundance.[36][37][38] The original score composed by regular Scorsese collaborator Elmer Bernstein was rejected at a late stage for a score by Howard Shore and mainstream rock artists U2 and Peter Gabriel.[39] The final cut of the movie ran to 168 minutes, while the director's original cut was over 180 minutes in length.[36]
Nonetheless, the themes central to the film were consistent with the director's established concerns: New York, violence as culturally endemic, and sub-cultural divisions down ethnic lines.
Originally filmed for a release in the winter of 2001 (to qualify for Academy Award nominations), Scorsese delayed the final production of the film until after the beginning of 2002; the studio consequently delayed the film for nearly a year until its release in the Oscar season of late 2002.[40]
Gangs of New York earned Scorsese his first Golden Globe for Best Director. In February 2003, Gangs of New York received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. This was Scorsese's fourth Best Director nomination, and many thought it was finally his year to win. Ultimately, however, the film took home not a single Academy Award, and Scorsese lost his category to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.
2003 also saw the release of The Blues, an expansive seven part documentary tracing the history of blues music from its African roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Scorsese's entry was entitled “Feel Like Going Home”).
Scorsese also had uncredited involvement as executive producer with the 2002 film Deuces Wild,[41] written by Paul Kimatian.

Scorsese's Caeer and Cape Fear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese

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PRICEMartin C. Scorsese[1] (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,[2] machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas—all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.[3] He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
In 2007, Scorsese was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at the nonprofit's 32nd Anniversary Gala. During the ceremony, Scorsese helped launch NIAF's Jack Valenti Institute, which provides support to Italian American film students, in memory of former Foundation Board Member and past president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Jack Valenti. Scorsese received his award from Mary Margaret Valenti, Jack's widow.

Personal life
Martin Scorsese was born in New York City. His father, Luciano Charles Scorsese (1913–1993), and mother, Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa; 1912–1997), both worked in New York's Garment District. His father was a clothes presser and his mother was a seamstress.[4] As a boy, his parents would often take him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his life that he developed a passion for cinema. Enamored with historical epics as a teenager, at least two films of the genre, Land of the Pharaohs and El Cid, appear to have had a deep and lasting impact on his cinema psyche. Scorsese also developed an admiration for neo-realist cinema at this time. He recounted its influence in a documentary on Italian neorealism, and commented on how The Bicycle Thief alongside Paisà, Rome, Open City inspired him and how this influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian heritage. In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà which he first saw on television alongside his relatives, who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, made a significant impact on his life.[5] He has also cited filmmaker Satyajit Ray as a major influence on his career.[6][7] His initial desire to become a priest while attending Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx was forsaken for cinema, and, consequently, Scorsese enrolled in NYU Film School, where he received his MFA in film directing in 1966.
Scorsese has been married five times. His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan; they have a daughter, Catherine. He married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976; they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who is an actress and appeared in The Age of Innocence, but the marriage lasted only a year. He was married to actress Isabella Rossellini from 1979 to their divorce in 1983. He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985; their marriage ended in divorce as well, in 1991. He has been married to Helen Morris since 1999; they have a daughter, Francesca, who appeared in The Departed and The Aviator. He is primarily based in New York City.

Career
[edit] Early career
Scorsese attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966)[8] making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.[9]
Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical 'J.R. Trilogy', which also would have included his later film, Mean Streets. Even in embryonic form, the "Scorsese style" was already evident: a feel for New York Italian American street-life, rapid editing, an eclectic rock soundtrack, and a troubled male protagonist.

Cape Fear
Main article: Cape Fear (1991 film)
1991 brought Cape Fear, a remake of a cult 1962 movie of the same name, and the director's seventh collaboration with De Niro. Another foray into the mainstream, the film was a stylized Grand Guignol thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical reception and was lambasted in many quarters for its scenes depicting misogynistic violence. However, the lurid subject matter did give Scorsese a chance to experiment with a dazzling array of visual tricks and effects. The film garnered two Oscar nominations. Earning eighty million dollars domestically, it would stand as Scorsese's most commercially successful release until The Aviator (2004), and then The Departed (2006). The film also marked the first time Scorsese used wide-screen Panavision with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1

Contents[hide]
1 Personal life
2 Career
2.1 Early career
2.2 1970s
2.2.1 Mean Streets
2.2.2 Taxi Driver
2.2.3 New York, New York and The Last Waltz
2.3 1980s
2.3.1 Raging Bull
2.3.2 The King of Comedy
2.3.3 After Hours
2.3.4 The Color of Money
2.3.5 The Last Temptation of Christ
2.4 1990s
2.4.1 Goodfellas
2.4.2 Cape Fear
2.4.3 The Age of Innocence
2.4.4 Casino
2.4.5 A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
2.4.6 Kundun
2.4.7 Bringing Out the Dead
2.5 2000s
2.5.1 Gangs of New York
2.5.2 The Aviator
2.5.3 No Direction Home
2.5.4 The Departed
2.5.5 Shine a Light
2.6 2010s
2.6.1 Shutter Island
2.6.2 Boardwalk Empire
2.7 Future films
2.8 Collaborations with Robert De Niro
3 Honors
4 Director trademarks
5 Frequent collaborations
6 Television
7 Awards and recognitions
8 Filmography (as director)
8.1 Feature narratives
8.2 Documentaries
8.3 Short films
9 Selected filmography (as actor)
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

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