Currently playing in Amsterdam, Robert De Niro is one of Hollywood’s last sacred monsters. A look back at one of the finest film careers of recent decades through this quiz in 10 questions and 10 films.
We can say it with all due respect to the immense Robert De Niro, the 2010s will not have been the most significant for this extraordinary actor. With films like Happy New Year, Last Vegas, or even Dirty Grandpa, we are far from the masterpieces of previous years… A decade which nevertheless ended on two rather pleasing notes with his role as TV host Murray Franklin facing Joaquin Phoenix in Joker, but also for his reunion with Martin Scorsese in The Irishman.
But this end of career with sometimes hazardous choices should not make us forget an exceptional filmography which offered us during three decades many peaks of the seventh art. If only his fruitful collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, for whom he shot no less than nine films. It all starts with Mean Streets released in 1973 in which De Niro plays Johnny Boy, a little striker with an unstable character and riddled with debts that his friend Charlie (Harvey Keitel) will try to take under his wing.
A duo was born, which two years later gave rise to the summit Taxi Driver, a film nominated in four categories at the Oscars and which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976. Among the following films, we can retain his role as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, and the 90s diptych Les Affranchis / Casino. A prolific association between a director and his actor who will meet again soon with Killers of the Flower Moon.
Robert De Niro has of course worked with many other prestigious directors, including Brian De Palma (The Incorruptibles), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather 2), Michael Cimino (Journey to the End of Hell), or even Sergio Leone ( Once upon a time in America). What offer you an eclectic quiz that looks back on ten of the films of this legendary actor.