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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Film poster
Directed byMartin Scorsese
Michael Henry Wilson[1]
Written byMartin Scorsese
Michael Henry Wilson[2]
Produced byFlorence Dauman
Martin Scorsese
StarringMartin Scorsese
CinematographyJean-Yves Escoffier
Frances Reid
Nancy Schreiber
Edited byKenneth Levis
David Lindblom
Music byElmer Bernstein[3]
Production
companies
Release dates
  • 21 May 1995 (1995-05-21) (UK)
  • 6 March 1998 (1998-03-06) (US)
Running time
225 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a 1995 British documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute.[5]

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 such as D.W. Griffith and 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 such as filmmakers 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 such as Charles Chaplin, Erich von Stroheim, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.

Summary

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The documentary is structured in segments:

  • Part I
    • The director's dilemma
    • The director as storyteller
      • The Western
      • The Gangster film
      • The Musical
  • Part II
    • The director as illusionist
    • The director as smuggler I
  • Part III
    • The director as smuggler II
    • The director as iconoclast [6]

It was originally shown on television in the UK in 1995.[7]

Films mentioned

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(Roughly in the order of the appearance.)

Part I

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The Director as Storyteller

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The Western

The Gangster Film

The Musical

Part II

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The Director as Illusionist

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The Director as Smuggler

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Part III

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The Director as Iconoclast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies. 5 May 2000. OCLC 806376303. Retrieved 5 May 2021 – via Open WorldCat.
  2. ^ Phipps, Keith (29 March 2002). "A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies". The AV Club. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  3. ^ Laskin, Nicholas (17 December 2014). "Watch: Study Cinema History With Full Doc 'A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies'". IndieWire. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  4. ^ "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" – via mubi.com.
  5. ^ "A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  6. ^ "A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies". TV Guide.
  7. ^ "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) - Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
  8. ^ "TCM.com".
  9. ^ James, Caryn (6 March 1998). "'A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies'". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  10. ^ "A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies". EW.com.
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