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Article: Scorsese: Is he driving down a dead end? From the great Travis Bickle to an alienated ambulance driver: in his new movie, America's greatest living director is reduced to self- parody. By David Thomson
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1999
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We want Martin Scorsese to be as good as our best memories of him.
After all, he represents so many admirable alternatives to drab
Hollywood orthodoxy. He is a resolute New Yorker; he finds his
subject-matter far from the balmy light and gentle lies of Los
Angeles. He was a film student once, at New York University, and he
stands up for the notion that the best film students should make our
movies, and make them strange, beautiful and challenging. To this
day, kids in love with film go to sleep dreaming of being Marty. They
tell themselves that he's the guy who made Mean Streets, Taxi Driver
and Raging Bull; they rejoice that he has never had anything like a
great big vulgar hit (like Star ...
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