Scorsese born in New York grew up watching films at an early age,developing a love for the cinema. He got in NYU film school, his first production, It's Not Just You Murray! won the 1964 Producer's Guild Award for Best Student Film.
Influenced by Italian cinema's neo-realism, Scorsese early works was a window to his New York childhood a mixture of street life and movies he watched. The early films showed the energy and grit that will evolved in his future films.
Here are two films Scorsese has done as a student filmmaker at NYU. The third, Who's That Knocking at my Door, is his first feature.
A short film on the life of a small time hood and his back-stabbing associate, in Murray Scorsese just holds the camera going about New York filming with close ups and zooms. Its well paced, clever, satirical and this is a student film. Scorsese has a natural talent for interpretation - visualizing his ideas to the point, no more no less.
The Big Shave (1967)
A man gradually shaves his hair eventually shaving off his skin. The scene gets graphic and bloody Done as a project for his film class Scorsese depicted the Vietnam war's self destruction in a shave.
Who's That Knocking at my Door (1967)
Featuring a young Harvey Keitel in his debut film. The first of the J.R. trilogy clever camera work and the use of rock music as a soundtrack was a first before Easy Rider. But Who's That Knocking at my Door was shown publicly three years later. Scorsese did some experimentation on camera angles, rythmn, etc, an early work that shows the evolution of a master director.
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