What award did Martin Scorsese win at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival?
The iconic Taxi Driver followed in 1976 – Scorsese’s dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man’s slow, deliberate descent into insanity. The film is important for various reasons. Foremost, it established Scorsese as an accomplished filmmaker operating on a highly skilled level along with cinematographer Michael Chapman whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors and complex camera movements. Also, the groundbreaking performance of Robert De Niro as the troubled and psychotic, Travis Bickle, instantly became one of the cinema’s most legendary turns. The film also co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, and Harvey Keitel as her pimp, Matthew a.k.a. “Sport.” Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations with writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson’s work in
Martin Scorsese is talkin’ to you. If the director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull and The Departed somehow appeared working behind the counter at your video store, wouldn’t you take his advice on renting a few extremely obscure titles? Over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, he announced that that’s what he’s trying to do. Suggest some rarities, that is — not work a clerking job. He’s gainfully employed at the moment, finishing the Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shutter Island and developing a Frank Sinatra movie. The iconic New York filmmaker was at Cannes— where he won the Golden Palm in 1976 for Taxi Driver— on a new mission of nostalgia. FIND MORE STORIES IN: New York | South Korea | Egypt | Frank Sinatra | Cannes Film Festival | Leonardo DiCaprio | Martin Scorsese | Cannes | GoodFellas | Burt Lancaster | Raging Bull | Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader | Luchino Visconti | The Departed | T. S. Eliot | The Mummy | The Red Shoes His World Cinema Foundation tries to rescue, resto
