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A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies
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Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through ...
Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema.
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- Creator
- a BFI TV production for Channel 4 in association with Miramax Films
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Unrated edition
- Santa Monica, CA : Miramax/Lionsgate, [2000?]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 3 videodiscs (226 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocn806376303
- Credits
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- Producer, Florence Dauman ; writers/directors, Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson ; editors, David Lindblom, Kenneth I. Levis ; music, Elmer Bernstein
- Originally broadcast on Channel Four Television in 1995.
- DVD, 2.0 stereo, 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Director's dilemma: mastering the creative process -- Director as storyteller: the Western, the Gangster film, the musical -- Director as illusionist: controlling and mastering the technical process -- Director as smuggler: the metaphor behind the vision -- Director as iconoclast: asserting personal expression
Subjects
- Scorsese, Martin -- Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
- Motion picture industry -- United States.
- Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Motion pictures -- United States.
- Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.