A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

1995 · documentary · Martin Scorsese

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 . In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller; the director as an illusionist such as D.W. Griffith and 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 such as filmmakers 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 such as Charles Chaplin , Erich von Stroheim , Orson Welles , Elia Kazan , Nicholas Ray , Stanley Kubrick , Arthur Penn , and Sam Peckinpah . Films mentioned: 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 [ edit ] 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 Scarface , 1932 American gangster film directed by Howard Hawks (and Richard Rosson ) 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 The Musical Gold Diggers of 1935 , 1935 musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley Gold Diggers of 1933 , 1933 musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley 42nd Street , 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley Footlight Parade , 1933 musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley Meet Me in St. Louis , 1944 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli My Dream Is Yours , 1949 musical and comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz New York, New York , 1977 musical directed by Martin Scorsese (film mentioned in connection with My Dream Is Yours ) The Band Wagon , 1953 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli A Star Is Born , 1954 musical film directed by George Cukor All That Jazz , 1979 musical film directed by Bob Fosse Part II The Director as Illusionist [ edit ] The Cameraman , 1928 silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Buster Keaton The Birth of a Nation , 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith Death's Marathon , 1913 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith Cabiria , 1914 Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone Intolerance , 1916 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith The Ten Commandments (1923) , 1923 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille Samson and Delilah , 1949, directed by Cecil B. DeMille The Ten Commandments (1956) , 1956, directed by Cecil B. DeMille Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans , 1927 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau Seventh Heaven , 1927 silent film directed by Frank Borzage Anna Christie , 1930, directed by Clarence Brown Her Man , 1930, d