10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Retrospective - US Indipendents Of The Sixties

WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?

WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?

Country: USA
Year: 1963
Duration: 9'


Henry has bought a painting of a man in a boat and starts to become obsessed by it to the point to having to go to a psychiatrist. Not even his marriage succeeds in taking him out from under the influence that the painting has over him. At the end he finds himself inside the painting in the water asking for help in vain.

Biography

film director

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (New York, NY, USA, 1942) graduated from New York University in 1964 and debuted in feature films three years later with Who’s That Knocking at My Door? His films include Mean StreetsTaxi Driver (Golden Palm in Cannes in 1976), Raging BullGoodfellas, CasinoGangs of New York andThe Departed (Oscar for best director), making him – right from the 1970s – one of the most important American filmmakers. 

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967)Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973),Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Taxi Driver(id., 1976), New York, New York (id., 1977), The Last Waltz (L’ultimo valzer, 1978), Raging Bull (Toro scatenato, 1980), The King of Comedy (Re per una notte, 1983), After Hours (Fuori orario, 1985), The Last Temptation of Christ(L’ultima tentazione di Cristo, 1988), Goodfellas (Quei bravi ragazzi, 1990),Cape Fear (Cape Fear - Il promontorio della paura, 1991), The Age of Innocence (L’età dell’innocenza, 1993), Casino (Casinò, 1995), Kundun (id.,1997), Bringing Out the Dead (Al di là della vita, 2000), Gangs of New York(id., 2002), The Aviator (id., 2004), No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (id., doc., 2005), The Departed (The Departed - Il bene e il male, 2006), Shutter Island(id., 2010), George Harrison - Living in the Material World (doc., 2011).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Martin Scorsese.
Director of photography: Frank Truglio.
Editor: Robert Hunsicker.
Music: Richard H. Coll.
Canzone: "Swipel Hip Sal" di Richard H. Coll e Sandor Reich.
Cast: Zeph Michaelis (Harly), Mimi Stark (sua moglie), Sarah Braveman (psicanalista), Fred Sica (amico), Robert Uricola (cantante), Martin Scorsese (uomo sulla barca, non accr.)
Production company: New York University Department of Television, Motion Picture and Radio Presentations.
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