Scorsese Films on DVD

Released on August 14, 2007.

This is the long-awaited 2-disc set that includes "Taxi Driver," the stunning 1977 film classic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro as the tortured Travis Bickle, and an expanded 3 hours of bonus features, including the previously released feature-length "Making of Taxi Driver." The disc also contains commentary by Scorsese, tributes to the movie and director by other actors, producers and directors, as well as a feature on scriptwriter Paul Schrader and more.

 

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The Martin Scorsese Collection Vol. 2 was released on May 15, 2007.

This is a 7-disc set that includes "Mean Streets," as well as the two-disc special editions of "Goodfellas," "The Aviator" and "The Departed."

 

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Martin Scorsese's acclaimed film "The Departed" features powerful performances from an all-star cast including Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.

Set in South Boston, The Departed follows the lives of two state police officers and their all-out war to end the reign of city’s most powerful mob boss. As they work to infiltrate and gain the trust of the city’s top organized crime ring, it becomes clear to both sides, there is a mole in their midst, and now it’s a race to uncover the identity of the other man. Special features for this film include 9 Additional Scenes with Introductions by Director Martin Scorsese, Feature-Length TCM Career Profile: Scorsese on Scorsese, The Story of the Boston Mob: The Real-Life Gangster Behind Jack Nicholson’s Character and Crossing Criminal Cultures: How Little Italy’s Crime and Violence Influence Scorsese’s Work.

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Get the collection of tunes that Scorsese hand-picks for his films!

Product Description: The Most Renowned Filmmaker of his Era, Martin Scorsese Has Virtually Revolutionised Modern American Cinema Since He First Emerged in the 1970s, Pushing the Envelope of the Film Experience with an Intensity and Courage Unmatched by Any of his Contemporaries. His Evocative Use of Popular Music Has Been Emulated by Many of his Peers, and the Songs in his Films Are as Memorable as his Characters' Quotes. A Brilliant Musical Overview of Scorsese's Illustrious Career, the Director's Cut: Music of the Films of Martin Scorsese features 40 Fantastic Tunes from his Films, Recorded Between the 1940s and Present Times by the Likes of Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, the Cadillacs, Louis Prima, Little Richard, the Marvelettes, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Emmylou Harris, R.e.m., 10,000 Maniacs, and U2.

Many of them Not Available on the Original Soundtracks.

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A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star. The two-part film includes never-seen performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan’s during that time. For the first time on camera, Dylan talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career.

Plot Synopsis: Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home.
This item was released September 20, 2005.

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Executive producer Martin Scorsese's homage to the blues. "Musical journey" is an apt description, as Scorsese and the six other directors responsible for these seven approximately 90-minute films follow the blues--the foundation of jazz, soul, R&B, and rock & roll--from its African roots to its Mississippi Delta origins, up the river to Memphis and Chicago, then to New York, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Some of the films (like Wim Wenders's The Soul of a Man and Charles Burnett's Warming by the Devil's Fire) use extensive fictional film sequences, generally to good effect. There's also plenty of documentary footage, interviews, and contemporary studio performances recorded especially for these films

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On October 20, 2001, Sir Paul McCartney organized this historic concert which took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden, a mere six weeks after the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Thousands of firefighters, police officers, survivors, families, and fans witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime event as, in the space of nearly six hours, many legendary musical performers donated their time and their talent to one of the greatest causes ever, in the process giving their audience an unforgettable burst of pure emotion. Relive such performances by the Who, David Bowie, John Mellencamp, and Sir Paul himself, as well as personal short films made for the occasion by such New York filmmakers as Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, and dozens of celebrities, firefighters and police officers who immortalized that day with their stories and musical introductions.

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Two major collections of Martin Scorsese DVDs were released within a year. While the Warner set contains more popular films, this MGM set digs deeper. It combines a new, knockout two-disc edition of Raging Bull, the concert film The Last Waltz, and two Scorsese curios--Boxcar Bertha and, making its DVD debut, New York, New York. Bertha (1972) is Scorsese's first Hollywood film, a low-budget Roger Corman film adding sex to a Bonnie and Clyde formula of train-robbing outlaws starring Barbara Hershey and David Carradine. After seeing the film, John Cassavetes told Scorsese what he already knew--"make a movie about something you really care about"--thus providing the spark for Scorsese to make Mean Streets and turn his career around.

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A collection of five of Martin Scorsese's most personal films. Three of these films debut on DVD; all have excellent presentations plus new commentaries from Scorsese. The black-and-white Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968) was Scorsese's first film, an episodic tale of growing up in Little Italy. Mean Streets (1973) put him on the map while Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) gave Scorsese introduction to mainstream Hollywood. After Hours (1985) is the nightmarish comedy starting Griffin Dunne, a claustrophobic look at one night in New York that won Scorsese a Best Director award at Cannes. The highlight of the collection is a two-disc edition of his masterpiece, GoodFellas (1990), complete with a remastered print and a dynamite commentary by several key talents including Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro.

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This great collection of award winning actor Robert DeNiro includes five of his best-selling films on DVD--- Anayze This, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas, Heat, and Wag the Dog. Even though there's only one Scorsese film here (Goodfellas), this 5-disc set is a good deal for $60 or less. You would pay more to buy these dvds separately. If you are a Deniro fan then I definitely reccomend this collection.

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One of the most visionary, deeply personal works in the 60-year career of the master behind Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Ran. Featuring 8 episodes rich in imagery and insight (and casting MARTIN SCORSESE as a feisty Vincent Van Gogh), it explores the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and especially humankind's need to harmonize with nature. You will be enchanted ... and enthralled.

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GoodFellas special edition 2-DVD set is presented in a new anamorphic digital transfer, accompanied by two separate commentary tracks. Scorsese, Pileggi, and other collaborators are present on a patchwork and partial track that's too disjointed to be really satisfying; fortunately on the second track, Henry Hill himself is joined by ex-FBI agent Edward McDonald to chat about their own memories of the events depicted in the movie.

On the second disc are four new documentaries that look back at the making of the picture, its effect on other filmmakers, Scorsese's creative process, and the true-life background to the film. A gold-plated essential item for every DVD collection.

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Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.) DVD Features: Deleted Scenes; Casino: The Story; Cast and Characters; After the Filming; Moments with Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi ; Vegas and the Mob Featurette; History Alive: True Crime Authors: Casino with Nicholas Pileggi.

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DVD Features: Commentary by director Martin Scorsese; Deleted scene: Howard Tells Ava About His Car Accident ; A Life Without Limits: The Making of The Aviator ; The Role of Howard Hughes in Aviation History ; Modern Marvels: Howard Hughes, A Documentary by the History Channel ; The Visual Effects of The Aviator ; The Affliction of Howard Hughes: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ; The Age of Glamour: The Hair And Makeup of The Aviator ; Costuming The Aviator: The Work of Sandy Powell ; Constructing The Aviator: The Work of Dante Ferretti ; An evening with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alan Alda ; OCD Panel Discussion With Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, and Howard Hughes' Widow Terry Moore ; Still Gallery ; Scoring The Aviator: The Work Of Howard Shore ; The Wainwright Family - Loudon, Rufus and Martha ; Number of discs: 2;

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This survey of Italian cinema by Martin Scorsese is a worthwhile follow-up to his 1995 documentary A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Packed with insight and film clips, Voyage covers Italian cinema from World War II through the early 1960s, the time that the young Scorsese watched these films before starting his career. He introduces us to his family and Sicilian ancestors via photos and home movies allowing us to understand how powerfully these films affected him and his family. He talks about how he saw the films, often through inferior prints on television, and calls out details to observe. The filmmaker spends upwards of 15 minutes on a single film, with the bulk of the history centering on five powerhouse directors: Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Martin Scorsese's most personal masterpiece can be seen outside of the controversy it engendered, and be seen for what it is: a l5-year labor of love. Nikos Kazantzakis' landmark novel comes to breathtaking life in this moving and spiritual film. The all-star cast includes Willem Dafoe as Jesus, with Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie. Criterion is proud to present this cinematic treasure in an exclusive Director Approved special edition.

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Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. The fight scenes are astounding; they're like barbaric ritual dance numbers.

Raging Bull's special edition contains commentaries by Martin Scorsese, Frank Warner (supervising sound effects editor), and Thelma Schoonmaker (editor) which are especially revealing as to the attention to detail and meticulous care that went into this masterpiece. Schoonmaker literally cries while describing the emotional effects the movie had on her. Warner ceremoniously burns the tapes of his sound effects after the movie, because he feels they belong to the movie and should never be used again.

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Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City`s notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a revered gang leader (Liam Neeson). As a youth, Amsterdam witnessed the death of his father at the hands of William "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis). Determined to avenge his father`s death, Amsterdam makes his way back to the volatile Five Points and gradually infiltrates Bill the Butcher`s camp to exact revenge. By paying tribute to the early days of New York City in such a grand, spectacular manner, Scorsese also pays tribute to cinema itself.

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Martin Scorsese’s remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information regarding the sexually promiscuous activities of Cady's rape victim--information that might have won Max's acquittal. After serving a hellish 14-year sentence in a barbaric state penitentiary, the once-illiterate Cady, who has taught himself to read and studied up on the law during his incarceration, seeks vengeance against the prosperous small-town lawyer. Max makes good on his satanic threats to terrorize Sam, stalking the vulnerable family, poisoning their dog, brutally assaulting Sam's close friend, and sexually harassing Sam's daughter, Danielle (Juliette Lewis). To rid themselves of this raging force of retribution, Sam, Leigh, and Danielle join together against Max in a final struggle for their very existence. Scorsese pays debts to Thompson’s earlier version by using Bernard Herrmann’s original score, as well as casting Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, and Martin Balsam in supporting roles. The 2-disc collector's edition set includes interviews with Scorsese & cast members as well as "Behind the scenes" footage, and deleted scenes.

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The film flopped at the box office but is a favorite of Scorsese fans. Robert De Niro plays the emotionally unstable, horrendously untalented Rupert Pupkin, a wannabe Vegas-style comedian. His fantasies are egged on by Marsha, a talk-show groupie (brilliantly played by Sandra Bernhard) who hatches a devious, sure-to-backfire plan. Jerry Lewis is terrific in the straight role as the Johnny Carson-like talk-show host Jerry Langford. De Niro's performance as the obsessive Pupkin is among his finest. It's one of Scorsese's most original and fascinating films, giving viewers much to consider on the subject of celebrity. Its inevitable climax is clever and quietly horrific.

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