Martin Scorsese Offers to Donate Complete Film Archive to Italy

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is in advanced discussions to transfer his personal film archive to Italian cultural institutions, with the culture ministry currently scouting locations in Rome. The potential donation aims to preserve decades of cinematic history while strengthening ties between American filmmaking and Italy's heritage programs.

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Scorsese in talks to donate archive to Rome

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 1 - Cult Italo-American film director Martin Scorsese is in talks with the Italian ministry of culture to donate his entire archive to the city of Rome, Corriere della Sera reports Tuesday. And this - as Ilaria Sacchettoni says in a long article - "means original scripts, costumes, set props, equipment, even letters in which he communicates with the production about this or that film." The great Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas director, born to parents of Sicilian o...

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