Italianamerican

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Italianamerican
Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Produced by	Elaine Attias Bert Lovitt Saul Rubin
Written by	Lawrence D. Cohen Mardik Martin
Starring	Catherine Scorsese Charles Scorsese Martin Scorsese
Cinematography	Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing by	Bert Lovitt
Running time	49 mins
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Italianamerican is a 1974 film directed by Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese's parents, Catherine and Charles Scorsese, feature in this homemade documentary acting as themselves. The Scorseses talk about their experiences as Italian immigrants in New York among other things, while having dinner at their flat on Elizabeth Street. Mother Scorsese even shows us how to cook meatballs, a recipe later featured in the credits of the film. The family, religion, their origins, Italian ancestors, life in Italy after the war, the hardships of poor Sicilian immigrants in America striving to make ends meet, all feature in this film and as leitmotifs in Scorsese's later work.

[edit] External links

• Italianamerican at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Martin Scorsese

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? • It's Not Just You, Murray! • The Big Shave • Who's That Knocking at My Door • Street Scenes • Boxcar Bertha • Mean Streets • Italianamerican • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore • Taxi Driver • New York, New York • American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince • The Last Waltz • Raging Bull • The King of Comedy • After Hours • The Color of Money • The Last Temptation of Christ • New York Stories • Goodfellas • Cape Fear • The Age of Innocence • Casino • Kundun • My Voyage to Italy • Bringing Out the Dead • Gangs of New York • The Aviator • No Direction Home • The Departed • Shine a Light