A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies (1995)
Country: US
Technical: bw/col/1.37:1 225m
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Cast: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis:
The director takes us through a personal history of the films that formed him as an artist, and their silent movie forbears. The film is divided into three parts, concerned with the director as illusionist, smuggler, iconoclast, etc. His main brief is to show how Hollywood directors used the genre format to achieve very personal results.
Review:
First shown as a three-part TV series in the UK, this is a long sit if approached all in one. Scorsese is a passionate advocate of the films he chooses, but there is little a student of film history will find new here, save for the work of outriders like Ida Lupino and Allan Dwan.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col/1.37:1 225m
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Cast: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis:
The director takes us through a personal history of the films that formed him as an artist, and their silent movie forbears. The film is divided into three parts, concerned with the director as illusionist, smuggler, iconoclast, etc. His main brief is to show how Hollywood directors used the genre format to achieve very personal results.
Review:
First shown as a three-part TV series in the UK, this is a long sit if approached all in one. Scorsese is a passionate advocate of the films he chooses, but there is little a student of film history will find new here, save for the work of outriders like Ida Lupino and Allan Dwan.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col/1.37:1 225m
Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
Cast: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis:
The director takes us through a personal history of the films that formed him as an artist, and their silent movie forbears. The film is divided into three parts, concerned with the director as illusionist, smuggler, iconoclast, etc. His main brief is to show how Hollywood directors used the genre format to achieve very personal results.
Review:
First shown as a three-part TV series in the UK, this is a long sit if approached all in one. Scorsese is a passionate advocate of the films he chooses, but there is little a student of film history will find new here, save for the work of outriders like Ida Lupino and Allan Dwan.