Who's That Knocking at My Door?
by Martin Scorsese
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Actor: Anne Collette, Harvey Keitel, Lennard Kuras, Michael Scala, Zina BethuneDirector: Martin Scorsese
Brand: Warner
Writer: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Betzi Manoogian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Who's That Knocking at My Door?
Movie Review: Blown Away!! - A Film School Course in just 90 min.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love watching a director's early works and this 4-year film school graduate and post-graduate project by Martin Scorsese did not disappoint. Throughout this whole film I felt like I had discovered buried treasure. And as someone who makes short films, I felt the 90-minutes watching this crafted work was like getting an education in the art of filmmaking.
First off, the Scorsese camera work is fluid and dramatic. Here's one example: In one scene you see a butcher chopping meat and the camera is looking through a window. The camera pulls back and back and back until you realize it's placed on a tall building across the street. But then enter from stage right on the sidewalk far below, are two characters in the movie, the camera picks up on them then slowly zooms back to follow their actions - Brilliant.
Secondly, the dialog is beautifully crafted for the characters. In one scene JR (the Keitel character) is coyly trying to strike up a conversation with a young lady on the ferry. The are able to develop a conversation even though they figuratively speak different languages (him from the street; her a more cultured background).
Third and very important, is how Scorsese brings to life, what he saw growing up in the streets of Little Italy, NY. It's like an early version of how the characters actively engaged each other in his more recent 80's film "Goodfellas". And being an Italian-American from the East coast I can relate.
Also, It was really great to go back in time and see how it was to live back in the mid-to-late 60's. Those who criticize that the movie is amateuristic, dated or unpolished missed an opportunity to really enjoy a great American film.
For example: In the film, the idea that a man would get hung-up over whether a woman was a virgin or not would not work today, but back then it was relavent. And Scorsese in this his first film explored the idea of sin, confession and forgiveness. The church was a big part of his life as a boy and young man.
Scorsese's films reflect the world he knew and that was a few square blocks in Little Italy. That is YOUR window as the viewer of this film to see a slice of life back in a time that is now gone.
If you love film, give yourself a treat - Don't miss it!!
Summary of Who's That Knocking at My Door?
Martin Scorsese's debut feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door? contains many of the autobiographical elements that would inform Scorsese's work as became a director of world-class importance. This was Harvey Keitel's debut as well, and he plays a young New Yorker named J.R. (the name also served as the film's alternate title) as a tortured vehicle for Scorsese's own inner conflict between rigid Catholic tradition and initial forays into liberating sexual experience. Produced over a lengthy on-and-off schedule while Scorsese was a struggling New York University film student, and shot in the Little Italy neighborhoods where Scorsese was raised, the film (with a final budget of $75,000) is a boldly stylized, stream-of-consciousness experience, establishing Scorsese's passion for well-chosen rock & roll soundtrack songs while plumbing the depths of J.R.'s soul as he begins a tenuous relationship with an independent, sexually experienced young woman (Zina Bethune) who's at odds with J.R.'s seething repression. Incorporating fantasy sequences to further convey the young man's turbulent thoughts and emotions, Who's That Knocking at My Door earned favorable reviews, announcing the arrival of a bracing new talent and setting the stage, five years later, for the breakout triumph of Mean Streets.Similar DVD Movies
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