

However, because the film has many highly stylized dance and music sequences it is quite different from, for example, Casino and these other films.ĭe Niro does an amazing job playing a person with serious personal and interpersonal relationship problems, and in this way, it is like his other collaborations with the director. Like several other collaborations, in particular The King of Comedy, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver, the film deals with success, fame, and becoming famous (or infamous). De Niro stars as a jazz-playing saxophonist who enters both a personal and professional relationship with Liza Minnelli, who plays a jazz singer.

However, like their other collaborations, there are scenes of intensity and violence.

Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York is different from his other collaborations with Robert De Niro because it is a musical drama. Here is a ranking of the nine films in which Scorsese and De Niro collaborated to make cinema gold, the kind of movies you never forget. Not only did Taxi Driver feature Robert De Niro as star and Martin Scorsese as director, but it was written by writer/director Paul Schrader (co-writer of other Scorsese masterpieces like Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ) who is also a visionary artist directing films full of intensity and brutality ( Affliction, Hardcore). Many people consider the collaboration Taxi Driver to be the best film of all time. De Niro is an actor with a tremendous amount of intensity which Scorsese tapped into for his equally intense, brilliant films.

Together, the two men made nine incredible, genre-defying, influential, realistic, and often extremely violent films that have influenced a whole generation of filmmakers. Scorsese’s best films are generally considered to be his collaborations with Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, an auteur whose films are filled with violent intensity.
