Martin Scorsese - Deutsche Kinemathek Exhibition
Martin Scorsese, born in New York in 1942, is a great stylist of cinema. He combines genre-specific narratives with a reflexive way of telling stories like nearly no other director.
The spectrum of his oeuvre spans from experimental beginnings, through documentaries and music films, to the psychological thriller. A great deal of his subject matter is autobiographically motivated and deals with Italian Americans and their lives in Little Italy, in southern Manhattan. The influences of works of European auteur cinema and the classic Hollywood repertoire are also recognizable in Scorsese’s films. Productions, such as MEAN STREETS (1973), TAXI DRIVER (1976), RAGING BULL (1980), CASINO (1995) and THE DEPARTED (2006), which won several Oscars in 2007, have become famous.
This first international exhibition on Martin Scorsese tangibly documents the significance of his personal production style for modern American film through video installations and emblematic original objects. It shows his sources of inspiration, as well as his specific working methods. Correspondence, excerpts from film scripts and original costumes allow the origins of Scorsese’s cinematic figures to become more comprehensible. Storyboards, which he drew himself, set photos and spectacular props reflect the working methods of one of the most important present-day American directors. Aside from Scorsese’s own collection, the archives of his collaborators Robert De Niro and Paul Schrader, and of the production designer Dante Ferretti, were also reviewed.
In addition to Martin Scorsese’s artistic work, the exhibition recognizes his commitment to the preservation of international film heritage, with which he bridges the gap between cinema’s history and its future.
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