What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Martin Scorsese 1963 US (1st time; YouTube) A writer moves into a new apartment and becomes enthralled by a painting on the wall. Scorsese's early passion for film is evident much in the same way it is in Godard's early shorts; a fine visual storyteller even then, and very witty.
It's Not Just You, Murray! Martin Scorsese 1964 US (1st time; YouTube) A hoodlum remembers his rise and fall as a bootlegger. Early Scorsese tricks: voice-over narration, frantic information overload, and rapid, succinct editing; which film student [i]doesn't go through an "I love [/i]La nouvelle vague" phase?
The Big Shave Martin Scorsese 1967 US (1st time; YouTube) A man shaves himself in the mirror, slowly cutting himself more and more. An ultimately harrowing short film, quite ambiguous as it moves into some kind of surreal horror to an upbeat tune; filmed like a Gilette commercial, is it the mirror image of masculinity, a theme Scorsese would later tackle in his Mob films?
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