American film director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Irishman; founder of the Film Foundation, which restores and preserves films.
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I saw Ashes and Diamonds for the first time in 1961. And even back then, during that period when we expected to be astonished at the movies, when things were happening all over the world, it shocked me.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Martin Scorsese, the entry for Ashes and Diamonds.
British film historian and author of more than thirty books on film; founded the annual International Film Guide in 1963 and edited it for forty years.
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Seeing Ashes and Diamonds again after forty years, I realized how beautifully Wajda married his romantic flair and his unerring sense of history.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Peter Cowie, the entry for Ashes and Diamonds.
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