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TIL Legendary Dir. Martin Scorsese's biggest cinematic influence as a young man was Dir. Roberto Rossellini's films. Scorsese grew up, met, then married Roberto's daughter Isabella who then divorced Scorsese and got together with legendary director David Lynch.

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