Top League: the unknown face of Martin Scorsese cinema vol. 1 (guests: Janusz Wróblewski and Nils Warnecke)

dokumentART 2013: 15.10.2013, Tuesday, 21:00
Multikino Galaxy, (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: Top League

Each year, the Top League section presents the work of one prominent director. This year we will show selected works by the acclaimed and unique Martin Scorsese, who won an Oscar for directing “The Departed” in 2006 and a Palme d'Or for “Taxi Driver” (with the excellent Robert De Niro as the lead) and “After Hours,” has been laureate of the BAFTA award twice, as well as winner of multiple Golden Globes.
 
Born in 1942 in New York and raised in the Little Italy district, Scorsese already showed interest in cinema as a child. He has often talked about his little rituals – going to the movies with father. As he claims himself, that was the only thread of communication between them and one of the few topics for conversation. We can observe their relationship in one of this year's Top League films: “Italianamerican” from 1974. It is a very interesting and intimate story told from the perspective of the great director's parents. Apart from popular feature films, such as “Goodfellas,” “Shutter Island,” and the previously mentioned “Taxi Driver,” Scorsese shot a number of less known documentary films. We have decided to present them to you; “My Voyage To Italy” and “Lady By The Sea: The Statue Of Liberty” are only two of them. To cut it short: this is a program for those who want to get to know Martin Scorsese and his work from a different angle. It is well worth it.
 
The event will be held at MULTIKINO GALAXY.
 
Filmography:
 
Mean Streets (1973)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
New York, New York (1977)
Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1983)
After Hours (1985)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Casino (1995)
Kundun (1997)
Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)
Shutter Island (2010)
Hugo (2011)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Films

  • Italianamerican49'

    Something perfect for the most passionate fans of Martin Scorsese. Produced in 1974, this film is his first documentary. The first and already so very intimate, revealing: it touches upon the issues of relations within the Scorsese family and uses them to exemplify the life of a Sicilian emigrant in America. Through this film we also learn Charles and Catherine Scorsese's views on religion, customs, fatherland, cuisine, and cooking. This is not a sentimental picture, but a source of interesting and inspiring facts from the life of the grand master's family and his loved ones.

     

     

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  • Bad18'

    An 18-minute music video starring Michael Jackson and Wesley Snipes, among others. The story of a boy named Daryl (Jackson). The youngster is on his way home from school and faces various difficulties that he tries to overcome. In his autobiography from 1988, Jackson writes: “Bad” is a song about the street. It's about this kid from a bad neighborhood who gets to go away to a private school. He comes back to the old neighborhood when he's on a break from school and the kids from the neighborhood start giving him trouble. He sings, “I'm bad, you're bad, who's bad, who's the best?”

     

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Associated artists

  • Nils Warnecke

    Born in 1965 in Glückstadt on the Elbe, studied theatre studies, film and television studies, art history and sociology in Berlin. During his studies he did freelance co-operation for film and television as a set designer's assistant and as set designer. He graduated with a thesis on production design in Woody Allen's films, then he worked for the Berlin International Film Festival and the German Film Awards. Since 2001 he has been curator of the Filmmuseum Berlin. Curator of media programs for most of the Filmmuseum's exhibitions since 2002, including monographic exhibitions on Heinz Rühmann, Fritz Lang, Ruth Leuwerik, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Hildegard Knef, and Romy Schneider, as well as theme exhibitions – Oscars in animation, psychology and film, angels in film, set design, costume design, and German film operetta.

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  • Janusz Wróblewski

    Publicist and film critic for the weekly “Polityka.” Studied sociology. Graduated from the faculty of Polish studies at the University of Warsaw. He was part of the Karol Irzykowski Film Studio artistic council. He was head of the television program “Pegaz” and a journalist for “Życie Warszawy” and “Życie,” among other journals. He ran the film column of the monthly “Machina.” Author of the books: “Reżyserzy” (“Directors”) and “Magia kina” (“The Magic of Cinema”). Co-author of the film script for “Pożegnanie jesieni” (“Farewell to Autumn”), directed by Mariusz Treliński. Has published in “Gazeta Wyborcza,” “Rzeczpospolita,” “Playboy,” “Film,” “Film na świecie,” “Dialog,” “Zwierciadło.” Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association and FIPRESCI, awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis by the minister of culture.

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  • Małgorzata Frymus

    She is from Szczecin. Graduated from the Catholic University of Lublin and the PWSFTViT Film school in Łódź. Lecturer at the University of Szczecin. Journalist and reporter for Polish Radio Szczecin, deals mostly with culture topics. She worked with TVP Polish National Television (Szczecin branch). She made several TV programs and reportages. For years she has been working with the OFFicyna Association, the Zachęta Sztuki Współczesnej, and the Stowarzyszenie Ińskie Lato Filmowe. Celluloid Tales is her first documentary film.

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