A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

Country of Origin: USA / UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1995
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 225 mins
Format: black and white / colour     35mm
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: BFI / Miramax Films
Executive Producers: Bob Last, Colin MacCabe
Producer: Florence Dauman, Martin Scorsese (uncredited)
Line Producer: Dale Ann Stieber
Associate Producer: Raffaele Donato

SCRIPT
Script: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

DIRECTION
Directors: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Jean-Yves Escoffier, Frances Reid, Nancy Schreiber

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Editors: Kenneth Levis, David Lindblom
Additional Editor: Paul Petschek
Assistant Editor: Mark Hinkle

MUSIC
Music: Elmer Bernstein

VISUAL EFFECTS
Title Designer: Saul Bass

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Quentin Tarantino

CAST
Martin Scorsese (himself)
Kathryn Bigelow (herself)
Frank Capra (himself in archive footage)
John Cassavetes (himself in archive footage)
Philippe Collin (narrator of French version)
Francis Ford Coppola (himself)
Brian De Palma (himself)
André De Toth (himself)
Clint Eastwood (himself)
John Ford (himself in archive footage)
Samuel Fuller (himself)
Howard Hawks (himself in archive footage)
Elia Kazan (himself in archive footage)
Fritz Lang (himself in archive footage)
George Lucas (himself)
Gregory Peck (himself)
Arthur Penn (himself)
Nicholas Ray (himself in archive footage)
Douglas Sirk (himself in archive footage)
King Vidor (himself in archive footage)
Orson Welles (himself in archive footage)
Billy Wilder (himself)

PLOT SUMMARY

Martin Scorcese offers us on a very personal look at the films and film-makers that have most influenced his career.

AVAILABILITY

France
DVD Distributors: arte Video (279 844)

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Miramax Films
Video Distributors: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD Distributors: Disney (DVD 20672)

TIMELINE

1998
March
6: USA – theatrical release

1999
June
22: Italy – theatrical release

2000
September
12: USA - DVD release (Disney (DVD 20672))

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Un secolo di cinema - Viaggio nel cinema americano di Martin Scorsese - Italian title
Un voyage avec Martin Scorsese à travers le cinéma américain - French title
Un viaje personal con Martin Scorsese a través del cine americano - Spanish title

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
All That Jazz (1979)
Cat People (1942)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1956)

KEYWORDS

film history, film-making

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009