People

Directors, performers, composers, critics — hub pages for the people whose work and choices the notes keep returning to.

• Harvey Keitel The actor in each of Scorsese's first three films on this site: Charlie in Mean Streets, Ben in Alice, Sport in Taxi Driver. Scorsese's stand-in before De Niro was.
• Martin Scorsese The wiki's first person hub: the filmmaker as walking film archive — personal context made visible.
• Michael Ballhaus Fassbinder's cameraman, who came to New York and taught Scorsese to shoot sixteen set-ups a day. After Hours was their first film together; Goodfellas and The Departed came later.
• Michael Powell The director of The Red Shoes and Peeping Tom, rescued from obscurity by Scorsese, married to his editor, and a standing note-giver on his films: too much red, the wrong gloves, and the ending of After Hours.
• Robert De Niro Johnny Boy in Mean Streets, Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. The actor whose rewrites and rehearsal-room inventions are all over both films, often more than the credits admit.