Scorsese - The Exhibition | EYE Film Museum

The EYE Film Museum presents an entire exhibition dedicated to director Martin Scorsese!

Director of classics

Martin Scorsese (1942) is the director of classics like Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street. Films by this unique visionary focus on family, religion and trust. The Italian mafia often plays a prominent role, with debt and retaliation being a recurring theme, as well as violence and the search for spirituality. Scorsese creates characters riddled with fear, betrayal and doubt, often portrayed by star actors like Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Focus on Scorsese

This exhibition at the museum will be the first to completely focus on Scorsese and his influence on American cinema.

On show will be a large number of projected film fragments, as well as over 400 personal objects and documents from the private collections of Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

A light will be cast on what inspired Scorsese, and how his personal life and his work influenced each other.

Film programme

Scorsese himself has curated a programme of his favourite films, such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.

About EYE

EYE Film Institute Netherlands, the Dutch centre for film culture and heritage, is one of the most renowned museums in Amsterdam and is dedicated to developing a vigorous film culture in the Netherlands. Through its activities and services, EYE aims to foster a viable film industry in the Netherlands and to promote Dutch film at home and abroad.

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