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In Reply to: "Gangs of New York" posted by mvwine on November 20, 2002 at 13:39:38:

Scorsese himself has predicted that his odds of winning for Best Director will be zero for lifetime. He has three nominations for Best Director and two for Best Screenwriting which puts him in the august company of Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, and Hitchcock.
Spielberg was supposed to direct Cape Fear while Scorsese was adapting Schindler's Ark. They swapped projects and Spielberg won for Schindler's List.
Do I think Scorsese's one of the great American Directors? A resounding yes. The man has an incredible body of work. I realize your list wasn't meant to be complete but I think After Hours and The King of Comedy need inclusion.
Scorsese was in a couple of episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and in one Larry David welcomes him to L.A. Scorsese mentions having lived in L.A. in the past and after a beat laughs nervously and says, "But I was asked to leave." I roared.
Should we care about the Oscars? I don't think so.

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Have you ever seen Marty's cameo performance as Van Gogh in Kurosawa's Dreams? - Audiophilander 08:28:01 11/21/02 (1)
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- Re: Have you ever seen Marty's cameo - bubbahotep 11:59:19 11/21/02 (0)
  No I've not but will be checking it out. Like mvwine's post I too checked him out with IMDb and was surprised at the number of things he's been in. Helps me plan my winter viewing.
Re: A bit about Marty - mvwine 06:14:13 11/21/02 (0)
Yes, my list was just off the top of my head, but after reading your post, I looked him up at IMDB - What is amazing to me is that he acted in many more movies than he's directed!
And should we care about the Oscars? Let's see - Steven Spielberg has more oscars than Woody Allen - hmm, I guess that answers the question, at least for me.

I gave at the office!
Another great mystery - Victor Khomenko 15:14:31 11/20/02 (2)
I really loved when he talked about Italian cinema. He was incredibly eloquent, pleasure to listen to and was wealth of good information. But then you look at his movies - and I am utterly unimpressed. His work is good, some perhaps even very good, but never excellent. And that separates him from great directors.
This is the same impresion I get from listening to Tarantino. If only he stayed with telling movies stories! Man, I HATE his movies! The Fiction should be reshot to make it a 30 minutes film - then it would be remarkable. But I suspect what I liked in it was not what the movie was made for. Perhaps just an accident.
- Scorsese is hit and miss - mvwine 06:25:11 11/21/02 (0)
  which you can say about many directors, which make those who are consistently good stand out even more. Another is Coppola - Although he gets high marks from me for trying to preserve a lot of Napa Valley's heritage, and makes some good wine, too. Oh, we were talking movies, right?
  Coppola is hit and miss, but The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and the first two Godfathers make up a pretty good filmography.
  Tarentino hasn't impressed me that much. "Pulp Fiction" is good, but that's about all I can say. Maybe we're just too old, Victor, and we don't "get" it.
  I gave at the office!
- Re: Another great mystery ,Yes really.... - patrickU 00:31:43 11/21/02 (0)
  Curious, you wrote down exactely what I would have....

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