Martin Scorsese house: A look at where Martin Scorsese lives

Martin Scorsese was born in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City’s Queens borough on November 17, 1942. Before he started school, his family relocated to Manhattan’s Little Italy. Scorsese’s parents, Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese (born Cappa), were both garment workers in New York’s Garment District. Charles worked as a clothes presser and actor, while Catherine worked as a seamstress and actress.  His paternal grandparents, Francesco Paolo and Teresa Scozzese emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, while his maternal grandparents, Martino and Domenica Cappa, emigrated from Ciminna, both in the Palermo province of Sicily. The family’s surname was originally Scozzese, but due to a transcription error, it was changed to Scorsese. Scorsese grew up in a predominantly Catholic household.

Martin Scorsese house: A look at where Martin Scorsese lives

Martin Scorsese, who grew up in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood, now lives on the Upper East Side in a 19th-century mansion.

The Age of Innocence, a 1993 period adaptation of the restrictive high society of late-19th-century New York by Edith Wharton, marked a significant departure for Scorsese. When it was initially released, critics praised it highly, but it was a box office disaster, resulting in a net loss. The news that Scorsese wanted to make a movie about a failed 19th-century romance raised many eyebrows among the film community, as noted in Scorsese on Scorsese by editor-interviewer Ian Christie; all the more so when Scorsese made it clear that it was a personal project and not a studio for-hire job.

Scorsese wanted to do a “romantic piece,” and he was drawn to the characters and story of Wharton’s text. Rather than the traditional academic adaptations of literary works, Scorsese wanted his film to be as rich an emotional experience as the book was to him. Scorsese sought inspiration for this project from a variety of period films that had an emotional impact on him. Scorsese on Scorsese documents influences from films such as Luchino Visconti’s Senso and Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons, and Roberto Rossellini’s La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV.

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