{"id":13502,"date":"2011-11-17T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:41:24","slug":"martin-scorsese-at-bafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/17\/martin-scorsese-at-bafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese at BAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Martin-Scorsese-at-BAFTA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13503\" title=\"Martin Scorsese at BAFTA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Martin-Scorsese-at-BAFTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese\">Martin Scorsese<\/a> turns 69 today.<\/p>\n<p>Last December he gave at talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/\">BAFTA<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/people\/presenters\/francine-stock\/\">Francine Stock<\/a> where he discussed his life and career.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the whole thing here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8Qru9jD5hU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amongst the things they talked about were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The film that really affected him as a child<\/li>\n<li>His time at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_University\">NYU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mean_Streets\">Mean Streets<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The influence of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cassavetes\">John Cassavetes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italianamerican\">Italianamerican<\/a> (the documentary about his parents)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/13\/revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese\/\">Taxi Driver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Waltz\">The Last Waltz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raging_Bull\">Raging Bull<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodfellas\">Goodfellas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Direction_Home\">No Direction Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_(film)\">Shutter Island<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been a pretty busy year for Scorsese: there was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/13\/revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese\/\">re-release of Taxi Driver<\/a>\u00a0followed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/06\/06\/blu-ray-taxi-driver-scorsese-de-niro\/\">outstanding Blu-ray<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/07\/dvd-my-voyage-to-italy-martin-scorsese-documentary\/\">the DVD release of his 1999 documentary about Italian cinema My Voyage to Italy<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/08\/02\/martin-scorsese-on-film-preservation-lamca\/\">lengthy discussion at the LMCA about film preservation<\/a>,\u00a0his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/12\/george-harrison-living-in-the-material-world-dvd-blu-ra\/\">outstanding documentary about George Harrison<\/a> and his upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/06\/martin-scorsese-on-3d-hugo-paul-thomas-anderson\/\">3D film Hugo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_(film)\">Hugo<\/a>\u00a0opens in the UK on Friday 2nd December<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; More on Martin Scorsese at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/cast_members\/646\">MUBi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyshootpictures.com\/scorsesemartin.htm\">TSFDT<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/04\/bafta-guru-audio-video-interviews\/\">BAFTA Guru<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/06\/martin-scorsese-on-3d-hugo-paul-thomas-anderson\/\">Scorsese on 3D<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcinemafoundation.org\/\">World Cinema Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Scorsese&#8217;s BAFTA talk from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56,1861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}