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Martin Scorsese celebrates American movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the seventies.
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995 Directed by Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
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Un voyage avec Martin Scorsese à travers le cinéma américain, Uma viagem com Martin Scorsese pelo cinema americano, Un viaje personal con Martin Scorsese a través del cine americano, Viaggio nel cinema americano di Martin Scorsese
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Every cinephile on Earth, after watching this: "I am not worthy! I am not worthy!"
But, we are. That's the brilliance of Martin Scorsese, the teacher. He never looks down; he looks straight into your eyes, Hawks-style, and softly speaks, as if he and you were life-long pals. He wants to share his knowledge with as many people as possible, Sarris-style. He's in love with film, Cassavetes-style. He helps you fall in love with film, Minnelli-style. He reminds you why you fell in love with film and to bask in its mystical aura, Borzage-style. The proof is in his always-fascinating, always-eclectic oeuvre — and in A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies.
If Cinephilia were a country, I'd vote for Mr. Scorsese as President.
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Please know I am partly kidding when I say it’s absolutely infuriating when a director as good as Scorsese is also a great historian and critic. Like, goddamn Marty, do you gotta be good at everything? This is basically a pre-1970 American film history course in four hours, for the low, low price of whatever it costs you to get a copy of it on DVD (or less, if you can find it online). Whatever you pay, that’s the deal of the century.
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A great watch with tons of films, tons of directors and so many eye patches you’ll feel like you’re at a Red Ryder, air rifle convention!
I remember reading in college how Martin Scorsese’s parties usually consisted of staying up all night watching movie after movie and how he had not one, but several VCRs stacked up in the corner recording various movies off the television.
I have no idea if theses stories are true, but you can’t imagine how much I want them to be true and how much I longed for friends like my imaginary Scorsese. So obviously, I thoroughly enjoyed this chance to spend nearly four hours listening to him discuss his love of movies.
Oh, and of course my obsessive brain was compelled to compile a list of every movie shown or discussed:
The Films From: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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"Film is a disease! When it infects your bloodstream... when it takes over as the #1 hormone, it plays Iago to your psyche, and with heroin the antidote to film is more film."
- Frank CapraThere's not much to review. Martin Scorsese giving insights into his film experiences as a kid and young adult should be enough information for anyone to decide whether or not this is worth a watch.
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What's better than a four-hour Scorsese film?
A four-hour film on Scorsese talking about films! -
Nearly four hours long, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies goes by in a flash, bringing the history of Hollywood to life with selected clips, brief analyses and interviews.
Scorsese talks to us directly and sincerely. Though he smiles in certain moments, there is a weight in his every word that conveys the sacred nature of the movies – these communal, so often spiritual experiences. This isn’t an attempt at an “all-time best” or “must-see” list but a rundown, as subjective as can be, of (some of) the films that have shaped Martin Scorsese, both personally and professionally, and have led him to discovering his true vocation. Some are widely considered “greats”, others less “culturally correct”. To…
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So as I finish watching all the movies from Scorsese, I am tackling some of his documentaries and why not starting with what I would take on a wild guess and say it’s a great look into his masterclass on, well, Masterclass, as the also film historian walks us into the formation of movies through his own personal views, taste and knowledge.
Now, as a film director, it would make sense that the approach he tends to focus on to walk us through the history is through the works of directors and how they reinvented cinema by becoming “smugglers,” “iconoclasts” and their own personal dilemma. This approach was quite interesting and as a filmmaker myself but also as someone who…
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Why go in debt from student loans being taught some convoluted media theories at an overrated university when you can simply have Martin Scorsese tell you about major moments in film history at no cost?
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“Film is a disease.”
Mind you I have not seen half the films Marty talks about and this still was the greatest thing in the world just because of how passionate he is about it all, and who else better to be a director than someone with a passion like his. A passion for gangster films, musicals and westerns, two of which he has already masterfully pursued so imagine how good Killers will be. He is such a big element in why movies are really important to me and watching this just solidified my love and inspiration for him even more. Marty is cinema, and cinema is Marty.
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The warmest hug imaginable. I could've watched 100 hours of Marty talking film; he just makes your life happier, your watchlist longer, your knowledge a tiny bit deeper and, most importantly, he makes you care about the art, the process, ideas and people behind them. We are not worthy of such a man.
"I find that over the years many films address themselves to the spiritual side of man's nature: from Griffith's film Intolerance, to John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, to Hitchcock's Vertigo, to Kubrick's 2001 and so many more. Is as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious, they fulfill a spiritual need that people have: to share a common memory."
