A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

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
Cinematography Jean-Yves Escoffier
Frances Reid
Nancy Schreiber
Edited by Kenneth Levis
David Lindblom
Production
company
Release dates
  • 21 May 1995 (1995-05-21) (UK)
  • 6 March 1998 (1998-03-06) (US)
Running time
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.

Films mentioned

(Roughly in the order of the appearance.)

--Part I--

—Part II--

—Part III--

—The Director as Iconoclast--

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