A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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Directed by	Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson[1]
Written by	Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson[2]
Produced by	Florence Dauman Martin Scorsese
Starring	Martin Scorsese
Cinematography	Jean-Yves Escoffier Frances Reid Nancy Schreiber
Edited by	Kenneth Levis David Lindblom
Music by	Elmer Bernstein[3]
Production companies	British Film Institute[4] Miramax
Release dates	21 May 1995 (1995-05-21) (UK) 6 March 1998 (1998-03-06) (US)
Running time	225 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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

• 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

(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 Director as Storyteller

The Western

• 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 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
• Directed by John Ford 1971 documentary directed by Peter Bogdanovich

The Gangster Film

• The Public Enemy, 1931 American Pre-Code crime film directed by William A. Wellman
• Regeneration, 1915, directed by Raoul Walsh
• Richard Rosson
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• 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