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The Guardian Interview: Martin Scorsese

For a director who commands such respect, it is surprising what a rough ride Martin Scorsese has had in recent years. But even with "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" to his credit, the going has not been easy. Nor have his peers offered him formal recognition. Despite the superhuman efforts he has poured into his most intimately conceived films -" Gangs of New York" took him 23 years to wrestle on to the screen - he has not won the Oscar for best director. The common thread in these disparate troubles is the dilemma of the movie director: how to combine commercial success with artistic integrity. Several of his 1970s films were ...

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NY Times: At the New York Film Festival, a Global Glimpse of the State of the Cinema

In its second week the New York Film Festival settles down to serious cinematic business. For the most part, the 13 selections in this part of the program are worthy of the festival's past offerings and justify the program director Richard Pena's claim that the event represents a kind of "state of t...

H'Wood Reporter: Major chains refuse to play Bush death film

Newmarket Films set itself an unusual challenge when it decided to release the controversial faux investigative documentary "Death of a President" just six weeks after acquiring the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. But it might face an even more formidable obstacle becaus...

NYFF CRITICS NOTEBOOK: Religion, Monarchy and More From the NYFF's Second Half

Movies fascinated with royalty bookend the New York Film Festival, which opened with Stephen Frears' crowd-pleasing "The Queen" and showcases Sofia Coppola's meretricious "Marie Antoinette" closing weekend, but overall, eclectism rules. Far from Balmoral and Versailles are the Cairo streets where Ta...

NEW THIS WEEK: "Shortbus" Arrives Without an Uproar (so far); "Angels," "Gold," "49 Up" and More Deb

John Cameron Mitchell's provocative new American independent film "Shortbus" opened in U.S. theaters on Wednesday (starting in NYC and then in LA Friday), without an uproar, or even the appearance of protest. While some in Cannes this year initially wondered whether the film might have trouble secur...

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