Martin Scorsese with Prof. Richard Brown

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Martin Scorsese joins Prof. Brown to discuss his career, body of work and reminisce about their time at NYU in the 1960's. (7/23/2005) Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years.Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards. He has directed landmark films such as the crime film Mean Streets (1973), the vigilante-thriller Taxi Driver (1976), the biographical sports drama Raging Bull (1980), the black comedy The King of Comedy (1983), and the crime films Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995), all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.[8] Scorsese has also been noted for his 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). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1, 1984 as a premium channel. Its original format focused on classic movies – largely those made prior to the 1950s – that aired during the afternoon and early evening hours in a commercial-free, generally unedited, uncut and uncolorized format. AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks. The channel primarily airs theatrically released movies, along with a limited amount of original programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_(TV_channel) http://www.amc.com/ @AMC_TV The New York University School of Professional Studies ( also known as SPS ) is one of the schools and colleges that comprise New York University. Founded in 1934, the school offers undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs. The school's main campus is located at 7 East 12th Street, New York at NYU's Washington Square main campus. http://www.scps.nyu.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/user/scpsnyu @NYUSPS Richard Brown began his teaching career at New York University in 1967. Movies101 was launched in 1969. In 1973 he was invited to join the founding faculty of The Tisch School of the Arts where he helped design the curriculum. In 1975 he founded The International Center for Film and Television. Since then he has taught on land and sea, to youngsters at Little Red School House and seniors at Greenwich House. He has lectured to the most powerful executives in America at the World Presidents Organization and inmates at Riker’s Island. His unique programs, blending adult education and a love of motion pictures have sold out at The Smithsonian and The Library of Congress, at Oxford, The Sorbonne, and The Carpenter Center at Harvard University. His Evening with John Cleese at the Smithsonian recently drew 1,500 fans and sold out on announcement. He addressed the United Nations delivering the keynote at the first annual conference on motion picture. He has also produced specialized festivals for Vassar College, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Arts Club and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has created individualized programs for numerous organizations, including American Express Centurion Division, Cunard Line, Four Seasons Hotel Group, Orient Express, and Silversea Line where he presents annual film festival cruises. He has undertaken corporate projects partnering with a broad variety of America’s outstanding corporation including the Sony Corporation, Grey Advertising, Walt Disney, BBD&O, DuPont and Time, Inc. His critically acclaimed series, Reflections on the Silver Screen featured 50 in-depth conversations with screen legends ranging from Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn to Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn. (Commissioned by The Library of Congress, it has been termed “...the definitive archive on American film in the 20th Century.”) Prof. Brown is revisiting these interviews with a 21st Century perspective in his new TV series, The Great American Movie Star, set to premiere on WNET in late 2013. @Prof_RBrown #Movies101 #NYU #AMC