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1995 film directed by Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies |
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Directed by |
Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson
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Written by | Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson
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Produced by | Florence Dauman Martin Scorsese |
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Starring | Martin Scorsese |
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Cinematography |
Jean-Yves Escoffier
Frances Reid Nancy Schreiber |
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Edited by | Kenneth Levis David Lindblom |
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Music by |
Elmer Bernstein
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Release dates |
- 21 May 1995 (1995-05-21) (UK)
- 6 March 1998 (1998-03-06) (US)
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Running time | 225 minutes |
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Country | United Kingdom |
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Language | English |
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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.
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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
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
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It was originally shown on television in the UK in 1995.
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Films mentioned
(Roughly in the order of the appearance.)
Part I
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The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952, directed by
Vincente Minnelli
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Duel in the Sun, nicknamed "Lust in the Dust", 1946
Western film directed by
King Vidor,
William Dieterle and others
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The Girl Can't Help It, 1956
Musical film directed by
Frank Tashlin
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Bigger Than Life, 1956 directed by
Nicholas Ray
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Vertigo, 1958 psychological thriller film directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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The Naked Kiss, 1964 neo-noir film written and directed by
Samuel Fuller
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Murder by Contract, 1958
film noir directed by
Irving Lerner
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The Red House, 1947 psychological thriller directed by
Delmer Daves
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The Phenix City Story, 1955
film noir directed by Phil Karlson
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Sullivan's Travels, 1941 comedy film written and directed by
Preston Sturges
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The Crowd, 1928
silent film directed by
King Vidor
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The Big Parade, 1925
silent film directed by
King Vidor
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Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 thriller film directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939, directed by
Frank Capra
The Director as Storyteller
The Western
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The Great Train Robbery, 1903
Western film written, produced, and directed by
Edwin S. Porter
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, directed by
D. W. Griffith
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High Sierra, 1941, directed by
Raoul Walsh
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Colorado Territory, 1949
western film directed by
Raoul Walsh (a remake of the 1941
High Sierra)
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Stagecoach, 1939
western film directed by
John Ford
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949
western film directed by
John Ford
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The Searchers, 1956
western film directed by
John Ford
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The Furies, 1950 American
Western film directed by
Anthony Mann
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The Naked Spur, 1953 American
Western film directed by
Anthony Mann
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The Tall T, 1957
Western film directed by
Budd Boetticher
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The Left Handed Gun, 1958 American
western film and the film directorial debut of
Arthur Penn
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Unforgiven, 1992 American Western film produced and directed by
Clint Eastwood
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Directed by John Ford 1971 documentary directed by
Peter Bogdanovich
The Gangster Film
The Musical
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Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935
musical film directed and choreographed by
Busby Berkeley
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Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933
musical film directed by
Mervyn LeRoy, staged and choreographed by
Busby Berkeley
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42nd Street, 1933
musical film directed by
Lloyd Bacon with choreography by
Busby Berkeley
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Footlight Parade, 1933
musical film directed by
Lloyd Bacon with choreography by
Busby Berkeley
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Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944
musical film directed by
Vincente Minnelli
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My Dream Is Yours, 1949
musical and
comedy film directed by
Michael Curtiz
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The Band Wagon, 1953
musical film directed by
Vincente Minnelli
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A Star Is Born, 1954
musical film directed by
George Cukor
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All That Jazz, 1979
musical film directed by
Bob Fosse
Part II
The Director as Illusionist
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The Cameraman, 1928
silent
comedy directed by
Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited
Buster Keaton
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The Birth of a Nation, 1915
silent film directed by
D. W. Griffith
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Death's Marathon, 1913
silent film directed by
D. W. Griffith
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Cabiria, 1914 Italian
silent film directed by
Giovanni Pastrone
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Intolerance, 1916
silent film directed by
D. W. Griffith
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The Ten Commandments (1923), 1923
silent film directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
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Samson and Delilah, 1949, directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
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The Ten Commandments (1956), 1956, directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927
silent film directed by
F. W. Murnau
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Seventh Heaven, 1927
silent film directed by
Frank Borzage
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Anna Christie, 1930, directed by
Clarence Brown
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Her Man, 1930, directed by
Tay Garnett
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The Big House, 1930, directed by
George W. Hill
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Leave Her to Heaven, 1945
film noir directed by
John M. Stahl
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Johnny Guitar, 1954
Western film directed by
Nicholas Ray
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The Robe, 1953 Biblical
epic film directed by
Henry Koster
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East of Eden, 1955, directed by
Elia Kazan
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Some Came Running, 1958, directed by
Vincente Minnelli
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Land of the Pharaohs, 1955, directed and produced by
Howard Hawks
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964, directed by
Anthony Mann
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, American television series from 4 March 1992 to 24 July 1993, created and executive produced by
George Lucas, directed by various directors
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2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
science fiction film produced and directed by
Stanley Kubrick
The Director as Smuggler
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Cat People, 1942
horror film directed by
Jacques Tourneur
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I Walked with a Zombie, 1943
horror film directed by
Jacques Tourneur
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Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948 film directed by
Max Ophüls, based on the novella written by
Stefan Zweig
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Scarlet Street, 1945 American
film noir directed by
Fritz Lang
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Detour, 1945, directed by
Edgar G. Ulmer
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Double Indemnity, 1944
film noir directed by
Billy Wilder
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Crime Wave, 1954
film noir directed by
André De Toth
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Outrage, 1950, directed by noted
film noir actress and pioneering female director
Ida Lupino
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Gun Crazy, 1950
film noir directed by
Joseph H. Lewis
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T-Men, 1947
film noir directed by
Anthony Mann
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Raw Deal, 1948
film noir directed by
Anthony Mann
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Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
film noir directed by
Robert Aldrich
Part III
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Silver Lode, 1954, directed by
Allan Dwan
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All That Heaven Allows, 1955, directed by
Douglas Sirk
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Bigger Than Life, 1956, directed by
Nicholas Ray
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Forty Guns, 1957
western film directed by
Samuel Fuller
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Pickup on South Street, 1953
film noir directed by
Samuel Fuller
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Shock Corridor, 1963, directed by
Samuel Fuller
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Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962, directed by
Vincente Minnelli
The Director as Iconoclast
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Broken Blossoms, 1919
silent film directed by
D. W. Griffith
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The Wedding March, 1928
silent film directed by
Erich von Stroheim
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932, directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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Hell's Highway, 1932, directed by
Rowland Brown
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Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, directed by
William Wellman
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Heroes for Sale, 1933, directed by
William Wellman
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The Scarlet Empress, 1934, directed and produced by
Josef von Sternberg
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Citizen Kane, 1941, directed by and starring
Orson Welles
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The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, directed and written by
Orson Welles
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The Great Dictator, 1940, directed by
Charlie Chaplin
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951, directed by
Elia Kazan
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On the Waterfront, 1954, directed by
Elia Kazan
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Apache, 1954, directed by
Robert Aldrich
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Blackboard Jungle, 1955, directed by
Richard Brooks
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The Wild One, 1953, Directed by
László Benedek
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Advise & Consent, 1962, directed by
Otto Preminger
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Paths of Glory, 1957, directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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I Want to Live!, 1958
film noir directed by
Robert Wise
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The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955, directed by
Otto Preminger
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Sweet Smell of Success, 1957
film noir directed by
Alexander Mackendrick
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One, Two, Three, 1961 comedy directed by
Billy Wilder
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Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, directed by
Arthur Penn
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Lolita, 1962, directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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Barry Lyndon, 1975, directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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Faces, 1968, directed by
John Cassavetes
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America America, 1963, directed by
Elia Kazan
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The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, directed by
John Ford
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