| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
| Produced by | Florence Dauman Martin Scorsese |
| Written by | Martin Scorsese Michael Henry Wilson |
| Starring | Martin Scorsese |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier Frances Reid Nancy Schreiber |
| Editing by | Kenneth Levis David Lindblom |
| Studio | British Film Institute |
| Release date(s) | 21 May 1995 (UK 6 March 1998 (US) |
| Running time | 225 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a four-hour documentary film presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute.
In the film Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to three different types of directors: 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 was originally shown in three parts on Channel Four in the UK in 1995.