My Voyage to Italy
allow ’s take a face at Martin Scorsese ’s documentaryMy Voyage To Italy – the fabled director ’s love letter to Italian cinema . Although Scorsese is best known for his mobster movie likeGoodfellasandGangs Of New York , his documentaries are some of his best work . Scorsese has directed many documentaries over his career , with a few of them focusing on melodic figures likeNo Direction base : Bob Dylan , George Harrison : live In The Material WorldorThe Last Waltz – a concert documentary about rock and roll group The Band .
In 1995,Martin Scorseseco - directedA Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movieswhich was an almost four - hour long documentary covering American cinema from the silent era correctly up to the belated sixties and how it impacted his filmmaking career . His 1999 documentaryMy Voyage To Italyis a fellow piece of sorts but with a focus on post - war Italian cinema and its neorealist menses . More than that , My Voyage To Italyis Scorsese ’s love letter to the Italian films he watched growing up in the forties and 1950s in New York ’s Little Italy . Clocking in at just over four hour this physician is a passionate court to an influential cinematic period that forge his love of films and moviemaking .
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My Voyage To Italypays picky protection to five greats of Italian cinema – Roberto Rossellini , Vittorio De Sica , Luchino Visconti , Federico Fellini , and Michelangelo Antonioni . Scorsese present over 30 different moving picture from those conductor and examines their influence on both man film and his own calling . Among the films boast are Rossellini’sVoyage To Italy(1954 ) , from whichScorsese’sdocumentary gets its name . Starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders , Rossellini ’s film was initially a critical nonstarter but later re - evaluated as a classic and a major influence on the French New Wave .
Other films covered inMy Voyage To Italyinclude Michelangelo Antonioni’sL’Eclisse(1962 ) which Scorsese key as a bold move forward in cinematic storytelling and Fellini ’s 1953 filmI Vitelloni . Not only wasI Vitellonia major influence on Scorsese ’s third feature of speech filmMean street , but it also shaped several other critically acclaimed American film like George Lucas’sAmerican Graffitiand Barry Levinson’sDiner .
My Voyage To Italyis substantiation of not just the impingement Italian movie theater has had on Martin Scorsese ’s workplace but filmmaking as a whole . And , as a sprawling journeying through some of its most important films , My Voyage To Italyis an informative presentation to twentieth - 100 Italian cinema .
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