10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Retrospective - US Indipendents Of The Sixties
WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR?
Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 90'
J.R., a youth from Little Italy, lives from day to day. One night he meets an attractive, refined girl and falls in love. Soon thereafter, he decides to take advantage of his mother's being away by taking the girl home so that he could make love with her. However, the religious images that hang above the bed make him uneasy and prevent him from consuming the relationship. One night the girl reveals to J.R. that she is no longer a virgin because she was raped by her boyfriend while they were on a trip. J.R. reacts badly and puts the girl's seriousness up to question. After that he takes part in an orgy along with his friends. The next day he returns to the girl to have a reconciliation with her, but his behaviour causes the definite break.
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 Streets, Taxi Driver (Golden Palm in Cannes in 1976), Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs 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: Michael Wadleigh, Richard H. Coll, Max Fisher.
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker.
Art director: Victor Magnotta.
Sound: John Binder, Jim Datri.
Songs: "Jenny Takes a Ride", di Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels; "The Closer You Are", dei Channels; "l've Had It", dei Bellnotes; "El Watusi", di Ray Baretta; "Don't Ask Me", dei Dubs: "Shotgun", di Junior Walker & His All Stars, "The End", dei Doors; "Ain't That Just Like Me" dei Searchers, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" dei Genies; "The Plea" dei Chantells.
Cast: Harvey Keitel (J.R.), Zina Bethune (la ragazza), Anne Colette (la ragazza del sogno), Lennard Kuras (Joey), Michael Scala (Salvatore "Sally" Gaga), Harry Northup (Harry, il violentatore), Bill Minkin (lggy/annunciatore radiofonico), Catherine Scorsese (madre di J.R.)
Production company: Joseph Weill, Betzi Mannogian, Haig Mannogian per TriMod (Prima versione del 1965, intitolata Bring On the Dancing GirIs; seconda versione, 1967, I Call First; distribuito anche sotto il titolo J.R., nel 1970)
Director of photography: Michael Wadleigh, Richard H. Coll, Max Fisher.
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker.
Art director: Victor Magnotta.
Sound: John Binder, Jim Datri.
Songs: "Jenny Takes a Ride", di Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels; "The Closer You Are", dei Channels; "l've Had It", dei Bellnotes; "El Watusi", di Ray Baretta; "Don't Ask Me", dei Dubs: "Shotgun", di Junior Walker & His All Stars, "The End", dei Doors; "Ain't That Just Like Me" dei Searchers, "Who's That Knocking at My Door?" dei Genies; "The Plea" dei Chantells.
Cast: Harvey Keitel (J.R.), Zina Bethune (la ragazza), Anne Colette (la ragazza del sogno), Lennard Kuras (Joey), Michael Scala (Salvatore "Sally" Gaga), Harry Northup (Harry, il violentatore), Bill Minkin (lggy/annunciatore radiofonico), Catherine Scorsese (madre di J.R.)
Production company: Joseph Weill, Betzi Mannogian, Haig Mannogian per TriMod (Prima versione del 1965, intitolata Bring On the Dancing GirIs; seconda versione, 1967, I Call First; distribuito anche sotto il titolo J.R., nel 1970)