• Martin Scorsese: The Big Shave, 1967

  • Martin Scorsese: Life Lessons, 1989

  • Martin Scorsese: It’s Not Just You, Murray!, 1964

  • Martin Scorsese: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 1963



Life Lessons: Four Scorsese Shorts



Three films in this program were completed when Martin Scorsese was a student at New York University and demonstrate the filmmaker’s energy, humor, and penchant for direct address. Inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? follows the comic travails of a young writer reckoning with adulthood and partnership. It’s Not Just You, Murray! is an expansive gangster picture in miniature—vigorous and economical. The Big Shave is an anti–Vietnam War statement from the confines of a bathroom. In Life Lessons, Procol Harum–blasting abstract painter Lionel Dobie (Nick Nolte) ignores the advice, “Get to know yourself a little better.”

—Jeff Griffith-Perham

Films in this Screening

What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Martin Scorsese, United States, 1963

FEATURING
Zeph Michaelis
Mimi Stark
Sarah Braveman

FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Martin Scorsese

Cinematographer

  • James Newman

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 10 mins
source
  • Janus Films

It’s Not Just You, Murray!

Martin Scorsese, United States, 1964

FEATURING
Ira Rubin
Sam DeFazio
Andrea Martin

FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Martin Scorsese
  • Mardik Martin

Cinematographer

  • Richard H. Coll

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 16 mins
source
  • Janus Films

The Big Shave

Martin Scorsese, United States, 1967

FEATURING
Peter Bernuth

FILM DETAILS 

Cinematographer

  • Ares Demertzis

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 5 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Life Lessons

Martin Scorsese, United States, 1989

FEATURING
Nick Nolte
Rosanna Arquette
Steve Buscemi

FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Richard Price

Cinematographer

  • Nestor Almendros

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 48 mins
source
  • Swank Motion Pictures

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