[ Scorsese on Scorsese (Revised) [ SCORSESE ON SCORSESE (REVISED) ] By Christie, Ian ( Author )Jan-14-2004 Paperback

by Ian Christie

Paperback

About the author

Ian Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London.

Reviews

[TheDirector · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, you knew i'm gonna talk about this one , there's no people who love cinema and didn't heard about Martin "Boxcar Berta" Scorsece, Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , The Wolf Of Wall Street and the list just goes on , so many beautiful movies , so much crativity in one person , lots of vision , and a heart which in love with the amazing thing that we called him "Cinema" , and he called them "Pictures" , and I always wanted to read a book about him , Iv'e got familier with this book after I read the second book of my favorite directior Quentin Tarantino , a book called "Cinema Speculations" (The best book I ever read , chack him out) , and I really wanted to buy him , but he's aint available on my country , but , my uncle was able to help me and one day when he at the U.S.A , he bought me this book and he's now om my libery , wating for me to read him again , so today , I want to talk with how much I love this book , and why he got four , and don't five starts .

So let's begin by saying that the story of Martin is actually insane as you expected, I didn't knew a lot of things about him before I read that book , but his biography tells his story , thorough the movies , and the directors that he loved as a kid , in a really good way , with a samll problem which we talk about that later , movies like The Red Shoes (Wonderful film), The Seventh Seal (Haven't seen yet but I did watched Persona), Directos like Ingmar Bergman , Howard Huges (which he did a movie about him called "The Aviator", Micheal Powell ( and his amazing freindship that was between them , I'm a little jealous) and he's talk about the movies he love, about the directors he love , and about every aspect in his life, like a little boy who loves being alive , and want to share it with the world , from his religious believes ( He wanted to be a priest guys), to his famliy , movies , series , stoies from the set , how he did his movies , and it all come out to a wonderful biography , which makes you feel happy , to get from God the chance to be happy.

But , the reason this book doesn't got five starts that sometimes, he feels longer then he should be , I felt in certain moments that he just , over telling to us and sometimes it works , sometimes it got me bored and made me wanted to read something else , the thing that makes yoy want to read the book about Tarantino is it doesn't feels bored , I don't saying that Scorsece's life was bored , they ain't bored until this day , but the way you speak about your life in a book is important , in order to give the readers the will to read about your life , so if you want to talk about your life , and make a book from it , sometimes , less is more .

And , to sum it up , I enjoyed that book , I laughed , I was inspierd , happy that we live in a world when I can see Scoresece's films and read about his passion for movies , but he's not a perfect one , and yet , I had a really good time.

And that's it , hoping you enjoyed my review , I'm going to search for a biographic book about Spilberg and until next time

Bye

[Asher Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

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