"of Comedy"" even more dangerous than ""Taxi Driver"" because of its lack of blood and the fact that viewers could easily identify with De Niro. In a documentary featured in the first DVD release of the film, Scorsese himself acknowledged the connection between the two characters: """"Taxi Driver"". Travis. Rupert. The isolated person. Is Rupert more violent than Travis? Maybe."" The King of Comedy (film) The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, and Sandra Bernhard. Written by Paul D. Zimmerman, the film focuses on"
"the scene between De Niro and Cybill Shepherd in the coffee shop. The director also cites Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Wrong Man"" and Jack Hazan's ""A Bigger Splash"" as inspirations for his camerawork in the movie. In ""Scorsese on Scorsese"", the director mentions the religious symbolism in the story, comparing Bickle to a saint who wants to cleanse or purge both his mind and his body of weakness. Bickle attempts to kill himself near the end of the movie as a tribute to the samurai's ""death with honor"" principle. When Travis meets Betsy to join him for coffee and pie, she"
"began purchasing weapons and practicing with them. He was prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers to deal with emotional issues. Hinckley became obsessed with the 1976 film ""Taxi Driver"", in which disturbed protagonist Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) plots to assassinate a presidential candidate. The Bickle character was partly based on the diaries of Arthur Bremer, who attempted to assassinate George Wallace. Hinckley developed an infatuation with Jodie Foster, who played child prostitute Iris Steensma in the film. When Foster entered Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut, for a short time to stalk her. He enrolled in a Yale writing"
"Taxi Taxie Taxi Taxie is a 1977 Bollywood film directed by Irshad. In 1976, Martin Scorsese came up with Taxi Driver, a movie that went on to be viewed as one of the best films ever. Starring Robert De Niro, the movie garnered tremendous critical acclaim and emerged as a cult classic. Over the years many directors have been inspired by its style and the way it went about constructing a psychological study of a man leading a life shrouded by disturbing elements, or rather deconstructing the psychological state of disturbed man finding it difficult to come to terms with"
"of the four films to be one character, who has changed as he has aged. The film also influenced the Charles Winkler film ""You Talkin' to Me?"" In the 2012 film ""Seven Psychopaths"", psychotic Los Angeles actor Billy Bickle (Sam Rockwell) believes himself to be the illegitimate son of Travis Bickle. The vigilante ending inspired Jacques Audiard for his 2015 Palme d'Or-winning film ""Dheepan"". The French director based the eponymous Tamil Tiger character on the one played by Robert De Niro in order to make him a ""real movie hero"". De Niro's ""You talkin' to me?"" has become a pop"
"""generally favorable reviews"". The film's critical profile has increased in recent years, with several critics expressing that, in retrospect, they feel it to be a more accomplished and artistically mature work than the thematically similar ""Goodfellas"". Casino (1995 film) Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci. It is based on the nonfiction book """" by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The two had previously collaborated on ""Goodfellas"". The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and De Niro,"
"1976. To Cimino's surprise, EMI accepted the film. Cimino went on to direct, co-write, and co-produce ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978). The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage as three buddies in a Pennsylvania steel mill town who fight in the Vietnam War and rebuild their lives in the aftermath. The film went over-schedule and over-budget, but it became a massive critical and commercial success, and won five Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture for Cimino. On the basis of his track record, Cimino was given free rein by United Artists for his next film, ""Heaven's"
"1976 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 11th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1977, honored the best filmmaking of 1976. 1. All the President's Men<br> 2. ""Taxi Driver""<br> 3. ""The Memory of Justice"" 1. Martin Scorsese – ""Taxi Driver""<br> 2. Alan J. Pakula – ""All the President's Men""<br> 3. Éric Rohmer – ""The Marquise of O"" (""Die Marquise von O..."") 1. Robert De Niro – ""Taxi Driver""<br> 2. Gérard Depardieu – ""The Last Woman"" (""La dernière femme"")<br> 2. William Holden – ""Network"" 1. Sissy Spacek – ""Carrie""<br> 2. Faye Dunaway – ""Network""<br> 3. Liv"
"The film won a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for four other BAFTAs, including Best Direction for Scorsese and Best Actor for De Niro. The film was generally praised by critics but did not perform well in the United States. Scorsese suggested the film ""...maybe wasn't so well received because it gave off an aura of something that people didn't want to look at or know."" De Niro and Scorsese collaborated again in 1990 on ""Goodfellas"", which also starred Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci. The film follows Henry Hill (Liotta) as he and his friends work their"
"1975, with his role as Randle P. McMurphy in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". The movie was an adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, and was directed by Miloš Forman and co-produced by Michael Douglas. Nicholson plays an anti-authoritarian patient at a mental hospital where he becomes an inspiring leader for the other patients. Playing one of the patients was Danny DeVito in an early role. Nicholson learned afterwards that DeVito grew up in the same area of New Jersey, and they knew many of the same people. The film swept the Academy Awards with nine nominations, and won the"
"the role of Brock from 1974 to 1980, then again from 1984 to 1986. Brock returned to Genoa City in 1988 and stayed through 1992, then returned in 1999 before departing in 2003. He had appeared occasionally since then, including a brief return in November 2008 to deliver the eulogy at ""Katherine's funeral."" However, Brock's mother did not die (instead it was Katherine's look-alike, Marge). Kazer reprised the role temporarily in April 2009. In the 1976 film ""Taxi Driver"", Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle is shown kicking over a television set that is playing a scene from an episode"
"Streets"" (1973) directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. Wakeford shot the film using handheld camera techniques to capture the self-destructive lives of shady characters in Little Italy New York. ""The Huffington Post"" called the cinematography by Wakeford ""arguably the most original for this genre at the time and has been copied endlessly in other movies, down to his audacious tracking shots. The innovative handholding and lighting techniques used by Wakeford have since become mainstream practice in American cinema."" In 1997, the United States National Film Registry elected to preserve ""Mean Streets"" for being ""culturally,"
"young girlfriend. In late 2006, Nicholson marked his return to the dark side as Frank Costello, a nefarious Boston Irish Mob boss, based on Whitey Bulger who was still on the run at that time, presiding over Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film ""The Departed"", a remake of Andrew Lau's ""Infernal Affairs"". The role earned Nicholson worldwide critical praise, along with various award wins and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination for supporting actor. In 2007, Nicholson co-starred with Morgan Freeman in Rob Reiner's ""The Bucket List"". Nicholson and Freeman portrayed dying men who fulfill their"
"Mean Streets Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin. The film stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as ""Johnny Boy"" Civello. In 1997, ""Mean Streets"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". Charlie is a young Italian-American man in New York City. He is"
"Dr. Phibes"" (1971), ""Lady Frankenstein"" (1971), and ""The Screaming Woman"" (1972) with de Havilland. He had lead roles in ""Doomsday Voyage"" (1972), ""Baron Blood"" (1972), and ""The Scopone Game"" (1973) and was in ""The Devil's Daughter"" (1973), ""The Streets of San Francisco"", ""Soylent Green"" (1973), ""A Delicate Balance"" (1973), ""The Rockford Files"", ""Syndicate Sadists"" (1975), ""The Timber Tramps"" (1975), ""The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case"" (1976), ""A Whisper in the Dark"" (1976), ""Origins of the Mafia"" (1976), ""Twilight's Last Gleaming"" (1977) for Aldrich, ""Airport '77"", ""Aspen"" (1977), ""The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries"", ""Last In, First Out"" (1978), ""Caravans"" (1978), ""Indagine su un"
"(1976), an animal comedy Winner produced and directed starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, and Milton Berle. Intended as a satire of Hollywood, it was a financial failure. Of modest success was his horror film ""The Sentinel"" (1977), which Winner wrote, produced and directed for Universal. It was based on a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz. Winner then wrote, produced and directed the remake of Raymond Chandler's novel ""The Big Sleep"" (1978), starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe with a strong support cast including John Mills, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone and Candy Clarke. The film was relocated to England and"
"director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting of the film to play the older LaMotta in later scenes. To accurately portray the younger LaMotta, De Niro trained with LaMotta until LaMotta felt he was ready to box professionally. De Niro lived in Paris for three months, eating at the finest restaurants in order to gain sufficient weight to portray LaMotta after retirement. De Niro won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. LaMotta had a troubled personal life, including a spell in a reformatory, and was married seven times."
"Christ"" (1988), the crime film ""Goodfellas"" (1990), the psychological thriller ""Cape Fear"" (1991) and the crime film ""Casino"" (1995), some of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. Scorsese has also been noted for his successful collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films, beginning with ""Gangs of New York"" (2002) and most recently ""The Wolf of Wall Street"" (2013). Their third film together, ""The Departed"" (2006), won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the film winning the award for Best Picture. Their collaborations have resulted in numerous"
"was being shown by Robert Viharo's son, Will, as part of his long-running Thrillville theater program. Bare Knuckles Bare Knuckles is a 1977 blaxploitation film, starring Robert Viharo, Sherry Jackson and Gloria Hendry. The film was written and directed by Don Edmonds. L.A. bounty hunter, Zachary Kane, is on the hunt for a masked serial killer on the loose. Director Edmonds said he didn't get any permits for the movie, it was made for $25,000 with another $25,000 spent for goods and services. It is one of the films that have inspired Quentin Tarantino, and it was selected by Tarantino"
"and ""Welcome Home, Soldier Boys"" (1972) in which returning vets are met with incomprehension and violence. In many films, like ""Gordon's War"" (1973) and ""Rolling Thunder"" (1977), the veteran uses his combat skills developed in Vietnam to wage war on evil-doers in America. This is also the theme of ""Taxi Driver"" (1976) in which Robert De Niro plays Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle who wages a one-man war against society whilst he makes plans to assassinate a presidential candidate. Apparently this film inspired John W. Hinckley to make a similar attempt against President Ronald Reagan. In a similar vein is ""First"
"It was one of the most notable gangster films of the decade. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci also starred in the film with Pesci earning an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards in all, including Best Picture and Best Director, making ""Goodfellas"" one of the most critically acclaimed crime films of all time. Following their collaboration in ""Goodfellas"", Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci would team up again in 1995's ""Casino"", based on Frank Rosenthal, an associate of the Chicago Outfit, that ran multiple casinos in Las Vegas during"
"Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro Director-actor duo Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have frequently collaborated throughout their careers, making a grand total of nine feature films together since 1973, along with one short film. Most of the pair's films were in the crime genre. Some of the pair's films are often ranked among the greatest films of all time. 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 fledgling actor Harvey Keitel. The film was intended to be the first of"
"the song, his car is robbed and he expresses an ever-bigger disappointment at the government. According to Allmusic reviewer Marisa Brown, Ludacris' character in the song has these thoughts because he is suffering from depression. The music video was released early in 2007. It is based on Martin Scorsese's ""Taxi Driver"", with Ludacris as Travis Bickle, with many references to the movie, including Ludacris kicking over his TV while watching President Bush and doing the iconic ""You talkin' to me?"" in an interlude. The video shows Ludacris as a taxi driver (wearing the same jacket as Robert De Niro) and"
"New York, New York (1977 film) New York, New York is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Mardik Martin and Earl Mac Rauch based on a story by Rauch. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as jazz standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers. The story is ""about a jazz saxophonist (De Niro) and a pop singer (Minnelli) who fall madly in love and marry""; however,"
"Driver"" at least 15 times, apparently identifying strongly with Travis Bickle, the lead character portrayed by Robert De Niro. The arc of the story involves Bickle's attempts to protect a 12-year-old child prostitute, played by Foster. Toward the end of the film, Bickle attempts to assassinate a United States Senator who is running for president. Over the following years, Hinckley trailed Foster around the country, going so far as to enroll in a writing course at Yale University in 1980 after reading in ""People"" magazine that she was a student there. He wrote numerous letters and notes to her in"
"Neame directed the festive favourite ""Scrooge"" (1970). ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), based on Anthony Burgess' novella of the same name, starred Malcolm McDowell as Alex, the leader of a gang of thugs in a dystopian Britain. ""Get Carter"" (1971) features the eponymous London gangster Jack Carter (played by Michael Caine). The horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), starring Christopher Lee, is considered a cult classic. In 1973 ""The Day of the Jackal"" starred Edward Fox as the ""Jackal"" (which was based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth). Nicolas Roeg's acclaimed psychological horror/thriller ""Don't Look Now"" was released in 1973. Two"
"the young and beautiful in Hollywood, embodied by the beach house, have great significance for both the Novelist and Director at the end of their luminary careers. The critical reaction to ""The Last Tycoon"" has been mixed. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews from 18 critics to give it a rating of 44%. The Last Tycoon (1976 film) The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Last Tycoon"". It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack"
"other hand, Siskel said that he walked out on three films during his professional career: the 1971 comedy ""The Million Dollar Duck"" starring Dean Jones, the 1980 horror film ""Maniac"", and the 1996 Penelope Spheeris film ""Black Sheep"". Siskel compiled ""best of the year"" film lists from 1969 to 1998, which helped to provide an overview of his critical preferences. His top choices were: From 1969 until his death in early 1999, he and Ebert were in agreement on nine top selections: ""Z"", ""The Godfather"", ""Nashville"", ""The Right Stuff"", ""Do the Right Thing"", ""GoodFellas"", ""Schindler's List"", ""Hoop Dreams"", and ""Fargo""."
"older Travis Bickle being in development. Also in 2000, De Niro mentioned interest in bringing back the character in conversation with Actors Studio host James Lipton. In November 2013, he revealed that Schrader had done a first draft but both he and Scorsese thought that it was not good enough to go beyond. In 2010, ""Variety"" reported rumors that Lars von Trier, Scorsese, and De Niro planned to work on a remake of the film with the same restrictions that were used in ""The Five Obstructions"". In 2014, Paul Schrader said that it was not being made. He said, ""It"
"the three had never collaborated together. Brad Pitt, also playing a fictionalized version of himself, makes a cameo appearance. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio meet with Martin Scorsese at the City of Dreams Resort in Manila to audition for his newest film. Despite their long histories of working with Scorsese, the two actors learn they are competing against one another for the same role. Scorsese explains the potential role to his two muses as they continue to Studio City in Macau. As De Niro and DiCaprio listen, both plead their personal cases as to why they are right for"
"awards, including the 63rd Venice International Film Festival for Best Technical Contribution. Lubezki has also worked with a variety of major directors, including Mike Nichols (""The Birdcage"", 1996), Tim Burton (""Sleepy Hollow"", 1999), Michael Mann (""Ali"", 2001), Terrence Malick (""The New World"", 2005, ""The Tree of Life"", 2011). Martin Scorsese (""Shine a Light"", 2007, as camera operator under supervision of cinematographer Robert Richardson) and The Coen Brothers (""Burn After Reading"", 2008). He has been nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, winning two. Demián Bichir American debut occurred in the movie ""In the Time of the Butterflies"" (2001) starring"
"and use ""all the basic tricks of the New Wave from around 1961"". The names of several real-life gangsters were altered for the film: Tommy ""Two Gun"" DeSimone became the character Tommy DeVito; Paul Vario became Paulie Cicero, and Jimmy ""The Gent"" Burke was portrayed as Jimmy Conway. Pileggi and Scorsese decided to change the title of their film to ""Goodfellas"" because two contemporary projects, the 1986 Brian De Palma film ""Wise Guys"" and the 1987–1990 TV series ""Wiseguy"" had used similar titles. Once Robert De Niro agreed to play Conway, Scorsese was able to secure the money needed to"
"clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down. Scorsese wanted to look away from Travis's rejection; we almost want to look away from his life. But he's there, all right, and he's suffering. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (De Niro), and received the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. It has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film was chosen by ""Time"" as one of the 100 best films of all time. Rotten Tomatoes gives the"