Who's That Knocking at My Door
November. 15,1967A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
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Simply A Masterpiece
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Set in New York, JR (played by Harvey Keitel) falls in love with a local girl (played by Zina Bethune). He wants to marry her and settle down but discovers that she was once a victim of rape. This raises all sorts of issues with JR.Martin Scorsese's first feature film. Not great - low production values, confusing jump-style direction, convoluted story that ultimately goes nowhere. Harvey Keitel, also making his feature film debut, is irritating in the lead role.Yet it bares some semblances of the later Scorsese trademarks. A degree of style, and story-building. Only worth watching from an historical perspective though.
Good movie. It's about male double standards and the role of the Catholic church in encouraging them. This theme is dramatised powerfully in the relationship between Italian-American J.R. (charismatic Harvey Keitel, making his film debut) and his unnamed beloved (Zina Bethune).Martin Scorcese's first feature, it is fizzing with inventive photography, and notable for its editing - the first collaboration of many between the director and Thelma Shoonmaker.The seeds of TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL and GOODFELLAS are clear to see here. But this is a fine piece of work in its own right.
I just finished watching Who's that knocking on my door on DVD and I thought the movie was pretty excellent for a first feature film that was directed and written by Martin Scorsese( one of my favorite film directors) before he became internationally famous.The movie is about this Italian-American J.R.(Harvey Kietel) who lives in New York City.He meets this girl (Zina Bethune) and when he gets into a relationship with her, she told him a secret that she once got raped by a man, and J.R. cannot stop struggling from the secret that she told him.I honestly thought both Harvey Kietel and Zina Bethune played great roles. The dialogue in the movie was pretty good for Marty's first flick.I especially liked the acting. I highly recommend that movie a must see for Martin Scorsese fans & movie lovers.I will definitely give the movie 10 out of 10 stars.I also think that it's definitely worth buying, as a matter of fact, they actually sell the movie on DVD for $3.00 at Big Lots.This movie is such a great American classic.
Here is Martin Scorsese's first feature film, and already, at a mere 25 years old in 1967, it is clear this young man had the determination and eye for visceral images, solid acting and a great ear for soundtracks. A rather raw and unpolished work, Who's That Knocking at My Door works in other ways such as the professionally-done editing by the great Thelma Schoonmaker, another future Scorsese collaborator. In the lead role is a very young Harvey Keitel, who plays the role of a young New York Italian very similar to the nature and style of Martin Scorsese himself. Clearly, there was a special bond between these two that continued for years.The plot, while at times veering wildly off track, focuses on a young couple attempting to overcome a difficult instance in the past that still looms over the future. With numerous Catholic images and references, this is one of the more explicitly religious of Scorsese's work but there is still a definitive drive behind everything. It is certainly worth watching for anyone who is interested in making their own film as well as any fan of Scorsese eager to know how he got to where he is today. Not always great, sometimes very powerful, this film still remains a strong piece of work that encompasses much of future themes Scorsese would come back to: Catholic guilt, relationships between street friends and the difficulties of romance.