Items Matching Tag 'Martin Scorsese'

Story of Film (The): An Odyssey [Steelbook] (DVD Details)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Lovingly researched and five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each...

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (DVD Details)
A feature-length documentary about Roger Corman's life, career and remarkable influence on modern moviemaking. Blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America's age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy's brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home,...

Taxi Driver (Blu-ray Details)
Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture (1976), Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's classic film of a psychotic New York cabby driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd, the film is presented on...

Lymelife (DVD Details)
Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Derick Martini, this semi-autobiographical tale about the American Dream gone wrong is set in the late 1970s in Long Island, New York. Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is a shy Star Wars loving teenager obsessed with feisty girl next-door Adrianna (Emma Roberts). Adrianna’s deer-hunting father loses his job after contracting Lyme’s disease from a...

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (DVD Details)
Cameraman illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema, spanning nine decades of moving pictures. In this unique insight into Jack’s life and work, the master himself explains how he helped elevate cinematography to an art form and made history with his groundbreaking vision and...

The Young Victoria (DVD Details)
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes The Young Victoria, the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power. On the eve of her 18th birthday and succession to the English throne, young Princess Victoria (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada) is caught in a royal power struggle. But it is her blossoming love...

The Young Victoria (Film Details)
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Departed, The: Two-Disc Special Edition (US) (DVD Details)
Rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It`s his job to win Costello`s trust and help his detective handlers (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen) bring Costello down. Meanwhile, SIU officer Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) has everyone`s trust. No one suspects he`s Costello`...

Departed, The (US) (DVD Details)
Rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It`s his job to win Costello`s trust and help his detective handlers (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen) bring Costello down. Meanwhile, SIU officer Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) has everyone`s trust. No one suspects he`s Costello`...

Shark Tale (UK) (DVD Details)
Oscar (voiced by Will Smith), a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it`s up to Oscar`s loyal friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) and Lenny to help him stand up to...

Casino (Special Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese`s riveting look at how blind ambition, white–hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), is riding high as front man for the Mob`s multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment"...

Amazing Stories: Series 1 (UK) (DVD Details)
As one experience ends, another adventure begins, in the extraordinary worlds of Amazing Stories! From acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment comes the Emmy Award-winning TV series available on DVD for the first time ever. Join a roster of cinema`s most illustrious stars, including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins, John Lithgow, Kevin Costner and more,...

Gangs Of New York (UK) (DVD Details)
Martin Scorsese`s lavish, epic period drama is set in the turbulent Five Points area of New York in the Nineteenth Century. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Amsterdam Vallon, out to avenge the death of his father (Liam Neeson) at the hands of Daniel Day-Lewis` fearsome Bill the Butcher...

Raging Bull (20th Anniversary Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
Raging Bull is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Violent throughout, this film is a testament to Scorsese`s and De Niro skills,...

Last Waltz, The (UK) (DVD Details)
On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, five thousand cheering fans gathered for the historic farewell concert of The Band. In the words of lead guitarist Robbie Robertson, "We wanted it to be a celebration." And so it was, and is, in Martin Scorsese`s lovingly filmed record of the event. The Last Waltz is more than just a concert film. Scorsese intercuts probing, humorous interviews with the group. What...

Mean Streets (UK) (DVD Details)
This ground-breaking movie, with its sharp dialogue and bristling energy, brought together the incredile talents of De Niro and Scorsese for the first time and lauched Keitel`s brilliant career.

Cape Fear Box Set (3 Discs) (UK) (DVD Details)
Cape Fear (1991) The film stars Oscar winner Robert De Niro (Casino, Heat) as Max Cady, a psychopath who has recently been released from prison. He is out seeking revenge on his lawyer Sam Bowden, played by Nick Nolte (48 Hours, Thin Red Line) who he believes deliberately withheld information about his case at trial which could have kept him out of jail. He embarks on a mission to terrorise...

Age Of Innocence, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Martin Scorsese, one of the great directors of our time, directs Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in a brilliant adaptation of Edith Wharton`s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, `The Age Of Innocence` chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1880`s. Newland Archer (...

You Can Count On Me (UK) (DVD Details)
You Can Count On Me` is an engaging, honest and funny portrait of a woman fighting to keep control of her own life. Oscar-nominated Laura Linney stars as Sammy Prescott, a single mother who has lived all her life in Scottsville, New York. Now she`s raising her 8-year-old son there, enjoying the peace of the family home and the security of her job at the bank, blotting out any memories of Rudy`s...

Goodfellas (UK) (DVD Details)
When Martin Scorsese, one of the world`s most skilful and respected directors, reunited with two-time Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in `GoodFellas`, the result was one of the most powerful films of the year. Based on the true life best seller `Wiseguy` by Nicolas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared `GoodFellas` great. It was named the...

Last Temptation Of Christ, The (UK) (DVD Details)
The Best Film of 1988` declared Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert/Chicago Tribune, echoing the sentiments of numerous critics who included `The Last Temptation Of Christ` as one of their `ten best films of the year`. The powerful drama earned director Martin Scorsese an Academy Award nomination for `Best Achievement in Directing`, as well as Golden Globe nominations for Barbara Hershey (Best Actress)...

Color Of Money, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, two of Hollywood`s hottest stars, ignite the screen in this powerful drama. Brilliantly directed by Martin Scorsese, Newman recreates one of his most memorable roles from The Hustler. As Fast Eddie Felson, he still believes that `money won is twice as sweet as money earned`. He forms a profitable yet volatile relationship with Vince (Cruise), a young pool hustler...

Bringing Out The Dead (UK) (DVD Details)
From acclaimed director Martin Scorsese (Casino, Taxi Driver) comes one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies. A burned-out New York City paramedic working the graveyard shift in Hell`s Kitchen, Frank Piere (Cage), is haunted by visions of the people he was unable to save. Over three typically chaotic nights with three differnet partners Larry (John Goodman), Marcus (Ving Rhames),...

Bringing Out the Dead (US) (DVD Details)
From acclaimed director Martin Scorsese (Casino, Taxi Driver) comes one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies. Nicolas Cage stars as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of saving and losing lives. One fateful night, Frank meets Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette), the daughter of a man Frank tried to save. Together, Frank and Mary confront the ghosts...

Taxi Driver (UK) (DVD Details)
Taxi Driver` provoked fierce controversy when it was released, running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be `as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs` (Evening News `76). In addition there was outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and...

Casino (UK) (DVD Details)
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese`s riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob`s multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci...