A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

Directed by

Michael Henry Wilson, Martin Scorsese

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

3h 45m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Martin Scorsese hosts this documentary that surveys American film history. He talks about his favorite movies and groups the directors into four categories based on their artistic approaches.

informativereverentcontemplativescholarlypassionateleisurely-pacedeclecticnostalgic

What happens

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. In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as story-teller; 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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