A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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| Directed by |
Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
| Produced by | Florence Dauman Martin Scorsese |
| Written by | Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
| Starring | Martin Scorsese |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
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Jean-Yves Escoffier Frances Reid Nancy Schreiber |
| Edited by | Kenneth Levis David Lindblom |
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225 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute.
In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller; the director as an illusionist: D.W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on; the director as a smuggler— filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films; and the director as an iconoclast, those filmmakers attacking social conventionalism — Charles Chaplin, Erich von Stroheim, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.
The documentary is structured in segments:
It was originally shown in three parts on Channel 4 in the UK in 1995.
(Roughly in the order of the appearance.)
--Part I--
—Part II--
—Part III--
—The Director as Iconoclast--
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