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Elmer Bernstein

Country
  
UK

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Genre
  
Documentary

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Language
  
English

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Director
  
Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson

Release date
  
21 May 1995 (1995-05-21) (UK) 6 March 1998 (1998-03-06) (US)

Writer
  
Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

Initial release
  
May 21, 1995 (United Kingdom)

Directors
  
Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

Screenplay
  
Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

Cast
  
Martin Scorsese
,
Brian De Palma
,
Gregory Peck
,
Frank Capra
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
Clint Eastwood

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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.

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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: 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:

  • 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

    • 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--

  • The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952, directed by Vincente Minnelli
  • Duel in the Sun, nicknamed "Lust in the Dust", 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, William Dieterle and others
  • The Girl Can't Help It, 1956 Musical film directed by Frank Tashlin
  • Bigger Than Life, 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray
  • Vertigo, 1958 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • The Naked Kiss, 1964 neo-noir film written and directed by Samuel Fuller
  • Murder by Contract, 1958 film noir directed by Irving Lerner
  • The Red House, 1947 psychological thriller directed by Delmer Daves
  • The Phenix City Story, 1955 film noir directed by Phil Karlson
  • Sullivan's Travels, 1941 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges
  • The Crowd, 1928 silent film directed by King Vidor
  • The Big Parade, 1925 silent film directed by King Vidor
  • Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939, directed by Frank Capra
  • The Great Train Robbery, 1903 Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter
  • The Musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, directed by D. W. Griffith
  • High Sierra, 1941, directed by Raoul Walsh
  • Colorado Territory, 1949 western film directed by Raoul Walsh (a remake of the 1941 High Sierra)
  • Stagecoach (1939), 1939 western film directed by John Ford
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949 western film directed by John Ford
  • The Searchers, 1956 western film directed by John Ford
  • The Furies, 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann
  • The Naked Spur, 1953 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann
  • The Tall T, 1957 Western film directed by Budd Boetticher
  • The Left Handed Gun, 1958 American western film and the film directorial debut of Arthur Penn
  • Unforgiven, 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood
  • Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend, 1971 documentary directed by John Ford
  • The Public Enemy, 1931 American Pre-Code crime film directed by William A. Wellman
  • Regeneration, 1915, directed by Raoul Walsh
  • Scarface (1932), 1932 American gangster film directed by Howard Hawks (and Richard Rosson)
  • The Roaring Twenties, 1939 crime thriller directed by Raoul Walsh
  • I Walk Alone, 1948 film noir directed by Byron Haskin.
  • Force of Evil, 1948 film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky
  • Point Blank, 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman
  • Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935 musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley
  • Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley
  • 42nd Street, 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley
  • Footlight Parade, 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley
  • Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli
  • My Dream Is Yours, 1949 musical and comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz
  • New York, New York, 1977 musical directed by Martin Scorsese (film mentioned in connection with My Dream Is Yours)
  • The Band Wagon, 1953 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli
  • A Star Is Born (1954 film), 1954 musical film directed by George Cukor
  • All That Jazz, 1979 musical film directed by Bob Fosse

    • —Part II--

  • The Cameraman, 1928 silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Buster Keaton
  • The Birth of a Nation, 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
  • Death's Marathon, 1913 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
  • Cabiria, 1914 Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone
  • Intolerance, 1916 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
  • The Ten Commandments (1923 film), 1923 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  • Samson and Delilah (1949 film), 1949, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  • The Ten Commandments (1956 film), 1956, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau
  • Seventh Heaven (1927 film), 1927 silent film directed by Frank Borzage
  • Anna Christie (1930 film), 1930, directed by Clarence Brown
  • Her Man, 1930, directed by Tay Garnett
  • The Big House (1930 film), 1930, directed by George W. Hill
  • Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 film noir directed by John M. Stahl
  • Johnny Guitar, 1954 Western film directed by Nicholas Ray
  • The Robe, 1953 Biblical epic film directed by Henry Koster
  • East of Eden, 1955, directed by Elia Kazan
  • Some Came Running, 1958, directed by Vincente Minnelli
  • Land of the Pharaohs, 1955, directed and produced by Howard Hawks
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964, directed by Anthony Mann
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, American television series from 4 March 1992 to 24 July 1993, created and executively produced by George Lucas, directed by Steven Spielberg
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • Cat People, 1942 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur
  • I Walked with a Zombie, 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film), 1948 film directed by Max Ophüls, based on the novella written by Stefan Zweig
  • Scarlet Street, 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang
  • Detour (1945 film), 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Double Indemnity, 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder
  • Crime Wave (1954 film), 1954 film noir directed by André De Toth
  • Outrage (1950 film), 1950, directed by noted film noir actress and pioneering female director Ida Lupino
  • Gun Crazy, 1950 film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis
  • T-Men, 1947 film noir directed by Anthony Mann
  • Raw Deal (1948 film), 1948 film noir directed by Anthony Mann
  • Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 film noir directed by Robert Aldrich

    • —Part III--

  • Silver Lode, 1954, directed by Allan Dwan
  • All That Heaven Allows, 1955, directed by Douglas Sirk
  • Bigger Than Life, 1956, directed by Nicholas Ray
  • Forty Guns, 1957 western film directed by Samuel Fuller
  • Pickup on South Street, 1953 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller
  • Shock Corridor, 1963, directed by Samuel Fuller
  • Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962, directed by Vincente Minnelli

    • —The Director as Iconoclast--

  • Broken Blossoms, 1919 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith
  • The Wedding March (1928 film), 1928 silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932, directed by Mervyn LeRoy
  • Hell's Highway (1932 film), 1932, directed by Rowland Brown
  • Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, directed by William Wellman
  • Heroes for Sale, 1933, directed by William Wellman
  • The Scarlet Empress, 1934, directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg
  • Citizen Kane, 1941, directed by and starring Orson Welles
  • The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, directed and written by Orson Welles
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film), 1951, directed by Elia Kazan
  • On the Waterfront, 1954, directed by Elia Kazan
  • Apache, 1954, directed by Robert Aldrich
  • Blackboard Jungle, 1955, directed by Richard Brooks
  • The Wild One, 1953, Directed by László Benedek
  • Advise & Consent, 1962, directed by Otto Preminger
  • Paths of Glory, 1957, directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • I Want to Live!, 1958 film noir directed by Robert Wise
  • The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955, directed by Otto Preminger
  • Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 film noir directed by Alexander Mackendrick
  • One, Two, Three, 1961 comedy directed by Billy Wilder
  • Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, directed by Arthur Penn
  • Lolita (1962 film), 1962, directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • Barry Lyndon, 1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • Faces, 1968, directed by John Cassavetes
  • America America, 1963, directed by Elia Kazan
  • The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, directed by John Ford

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