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November 26, 2005
Honoring the future hope of the past: Scorsese gets another scroll
With Martin Scorsese on the road with No Direction Home, ANSA reports on Scorsese's latest late-career honor, an honorary degree granted in Bologna. "In a long speech... Scorsese cited Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ermanno Olmi and Francesco Rosi. "It's impossible for me to express how much I learned from Italian cinema," said the 63-year old director... Without the postwar Italian film renaissance, Scorsese said, "As a Sicilian, as an American and as a movie-maker I wouldn't know where I'd be."
"As for Pasolini, Scorsese said "his films re-opened my eyes like a smack in the face." Scorsese, known for violent films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Gangs of New York, ended his speech by urging his young audience to "become human beings able to feel compassion... It might seem easy but it's a long, risky and sometimes deceptive road. I'm 63 and I've just started."
Posted by pride at November 26, 2005 04:44 PM
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