{"product_id":"martin-scorsese-a-retrospective","title":"Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in New York City in 1942 to Sicilian-American parents, Scorsese spent much of his childhood absorbing the sights and sounds of Little Italy from the balcony of his family’s tenement apartment – music blaring, drunks brawling and neighbourhood kids playing stickball. A lifelong asthma sufferer, he took no part in his friends’ games and instead fell in love with cinema at an early age, crafting intricate storyboards for as-yet-unmade Westerns and Roman epics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis long apprenticeship paid off in 1962 when Scorsese was accepted onto a film course at New York University and immediately attracted attention with a series of quirky and technically accomplished student shorts. Having made his breakthrough with the gritty \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMean Streets\u003c\/span\u003e (1973), Scorsese outgrew his early reputation as a virtuoso of violence, creating films as diverse as a nineteenth-century literary romance, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/span\u003e (1993), a dramatization of the early life of the Dalai Lama, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKundun\u003c\/span\u003e (1997), and a 3D children’s fantasy, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHugo\u003c\/span\u003e (2011). This lavish retrospective is a fitting tribute to a remarkable director, now into his seventh decade in cinema and showing no signs of slowing up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeading film writer Tom Shone draws on his in-depth knowledge and distinctive viewpoint to present refreshing commentaries on all twenty-six main features, from the rarely shown \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWho’s That Knocking at My Door\u003c\/span\u003e (1967) to \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Irishman\u003c\/span\u003e (2019), as well as covering Scorsese’s notable parallel career as a documentary maker. Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema’s most enduring talents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"CAP BOOKSHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52209131946293,"sku":"9780500296424","price":14.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4157\/3429\/files\/41HLaiOpfUL._SX342_SY445.jpg?v=1768477495","url":"https:\/\/capbookshop.com\/products\/martin-scorsese-a-retrospective","provider":"CAP BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}