Country: USA
Year: 1986
Duration: 119'
25 years after The Hustler, Eddie Felson has stopped playing pool and has become an alcoholic beverage salesman. When he discovers the talented pool player Vincent Lauria (Cruise), his desire to return to his old passion comes back and he organizes a trip through the United States with the young man and his girlfriend Carmen (Mastrantonio). From one pool hall to another, the three make money by hustling as many adversaries as possible. Vincent’s exuberance and Eddie’s humiliating defeat put an end to their partnership… Newman (after receiving an Honorary Award the year before, finally wins an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role) once again plays his most famous character as he embarks on a generational clash with Tom Cruise. Scorsese accepted the job for commercial reasons but thanks to the cinematography by Michael Balhaus and Thelman Schoonmaker’s film editing, he sharpens his furious, hyperrealistic, and seductive style, the outer edge of 1980s American cinema and of the contradictory relationship between art and industry.
Biography
film director
Martin Scorsese
(New York, 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? He then made movies such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver (Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976), Raging Bull, After Hours, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed (Oscar for Best Director), and The Irishman, making a name for himself as one of the most important directors in American film (and more), right from the first half of the 1970s. He founded The Film Foundation and thanks to its work he has helped discover, conserve, and restore many films from all over the world. He has tied his name to stars such as Robert De Niro and Leonardo Di Caprio, but has also worked with Harvey Keitel, Joe Pesci, Willem Dafoe, Jerry Lewis, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Daniel Day Lewis, Sharon Stone, Kate Blanchett…
FILMOGRAFIA
Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967), Boxcar Bertha (America 1929 - Sterminateli senza pietà, 1972), Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Italianamerican (doc, 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), Hugo (Hugo Cabret, 2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (id., 2013), Silence (id., 2016), The Irishman (id., 2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (id., 2023).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese. STORY: from the novel by Walter Tevis. SCREENPLAY: Richard Price. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Ballhaus. FILM EDITING: Thelma Schoonmaker. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Boris Leven, Karen O’Hara. COSTUME DESIGN: Richard Bruno. MUSIC: Robbie Robertson. CAST: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker, Bruce A. Young. PRODUCTION: Irving Axelrad, Barbara De Fina for Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners.
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