and two buddies to an upstate village where the camera shows up their 'big city' shallowness in comparison to the townspeople. The review later stated, "Scorsese occasionally brings the film to life, as in a weekend drive by J.R. I have no reservations in describing it as a great moment in American movies." Variety described the film as "more of a class exercise than a commercially sound film". He called the film "a work that is absolutely genuine, artistically satisfying and technically comparable to the best films being made anywhere. However, all subsequent releases have been published under the 1968 title.Īmerican critic Roger Ebert gave the film an extremely positive review after its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival in November 1967 (when it still went by the name I Call First). The film was re-issued in February 1970 by Medford Film Distribution under the title J.R. The film was re-titled Who's That Knocking at My Door (named for the 1959 song by The Genies which closes the film).
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fantasizing about bedding a series of prostitutes (shot in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with a visibly older Keitel). Scorsese shot and edited a technically beautiful but largely gratuitous montage of J.R. A year later, in 1968, exploitation distributor Joseph Brenner offered to purchase the film and distribute it on the condition that a sex scene be added so they can market the film as a sex exploitation. The film received its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival in November 1967. He opted to shoot several scenes with the 16 mm Eclair NPR camera in order to introduce greater mobility, then blow up the footage to 35 mm. Scorsese shot most of the 35 mm footage with a Mitchell BNC camera, a very cumbersome camera that impeded mobility. The film was shot with a combination of 35 mm and 16 mm cameras. Apart from the three producers, no one who worked on the film was over the age of twenty-five.
Haig Manoogian, Scorsese's professor at NYU, provided $5,000 in seed money before raising an additional $65,000 from independent investors. In 1967, the romance plot with Zina Bethune was introduced and spliced together with the earlier film, and the title was changed to I Call First. and his do-nothing friends called Bring on the Dancing Girls. The film began in 1965 by Scorsese as a student short film about J.R. Who's That Knocking at My Door was filmed in New York City over the course of two years, undergoing many changes, new directions and different names along the way.
Martin Scorsese appears in an uncredited role as a gangster. She tells him to go home, and he returns to the Catholic church, but finds no solace. becomes enraged and calls her a whore, but quickly recants and says he is confused by the whole situation. He awkwardly tells her that he forgives her and says that he will "marry her anyway." Upon hearing this, the girl tells him marriage would never work if her past weighs on him so much. However, after a particularly wild party with friends, he realizes he still loves her and returns to her apartment one early morning. This crushes J.R., and he rejects her and attempts to return to his old life of drinking with his friends. One day, his girlfriend tells him that she was once raped by a former boyfriend. As their relationship deepens, he declines her offer to have sex because he thinks she is a virgin and he wants to wait rather than "spoil" her. He gets involved with a local girl he meets on the Staten Island Ferry, and decides he wants to get married and settle down. Even as an adult, he stays close to home with a core group of friends with whom he drinks and carouses around.
is a typical Catholic Italian-American young man on the streets of New York City. This film was a nominee at the 1967 Chicago Film Festival. (Keitel) as he struggles to accept the secret hidden by his independent and free-spirited girlfriend (Bethune). Exploring themes of Catholic guilt similar to those in his later film Mean Streets, the story follows Italian-American J.R. It was Scorsese's feature film directorial debut and Keitel's debut as an actor. Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 American independent drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Harvey Keitel and Zina Bethune.
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