A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese shares his personal view and knowledge of the films, directors and actors that have shaped the world's most popular art form.; ; This special presentation on two DVDs discs includes:; ; The Director's Dilemma: Mastering the Creative Process; Martin Scorsese penetrates the industry's perennial conflict between Art and Commerce by examining the dynamic between the director's vision and the producer's 'bottom line.'; ; The Director as Storyteller: The Western, the Gangster Film, the Musical; Critical attention is paid to the primary role of the director – that of the consummate storyteller. Here, Mr. Scorsese offers a wealth of extracts from his film's greatest genres.; ; The Director as Illusionist: Controlling and Mastering the Technical Process; Martin Scorsese explores the director's constant search for technological solutions to tell his story, to implement his vision – from silents to sound, from black and white to Technicolor, from standard screen size to CinemaScope.; ; The Director as Smuggler: The Metaphor Behind the Vision; Moving effortlessly between cult favorites and acclaimed masterpieces, Martin Scorsese celebrates the director's surreptitious route to hide his personal message within the framework of a film.; ; The Director as Iconoclast: Asserting Personal Expression; Here, Martin Scorsese champions the mold-breakers – those who dared attack conventional filmmaking head on, defiantly sending shock waves throughout the industry, and ultimately expanding the art form.
• Cast: Martin Scorsese; Allison Anders; Kathryn Bigelow; Francis Ford Coppola; Brian De Palma; André De Toth; Clint Eastwood; Jodie Foster; Carl Franklin; George Lucas; Gregory Peck; Arthur Penn; Joan Bennett; Jack Carson; Philippe Collin; Peggy Cummins; John Dall; Joan Fontaine; Christine Gordon; Rosalind Ivan; Darby Jones; Louis Jourdan; Phyllis Kirk; Edmund MacDonald; Fred MacMurray; Tom Neal; Tom Powers; Allene Roberts; Edward G. Robinson; Jay Adler; Leon Ames; Morris Ankrum; Leon Askin; Fred Astaire; Mary Astor; Trevor Bardette; Vince Barnett; Richard Barthelmess; Anne Baxter; Warren Beatty; Wallace Beery; James Bell; Marisa Berenson; Sidney Blackmer; Joan Blondell; Lloyd Bochner; Humphrey Bogart; Peter Bogdanovich; Ward Bond; Richard Boone; Willis Bouchey; Lee Bowman; Marlon Brando; Henry Brandon; Peter Breck; Lucille Bremer; Clarence Brown; Yul Brynner; Horst Buchholz; Sonny Bupp; James Cagney; Frank Capra; Harry Carey Jr.; Harry Carey; Timothy Carey; Lynn Carlin; John Carradine; John Cassavetes; Seymour Cassel; Howland Chamberlain; Charles Chaplin; Cyd Charisse; Berton Churchill; Robert Clarke; Chester Clute; Ray Collins; Tom Conway; Ben Cooper; Miriam Cooper; Wendell Corey; Joseph Cotten; Joan Crawford; Donald Crisp; Ken Curtis; Tony Curtis; Frankie Darro; Doris Day; Charles de Rochefort; James Dean; Frances Dee; John Dehner; Cecil B. DeMille; Marlene Dietrich; Richard Dix; Kirk Douglas; Louise Dresser; Keir Dullea; Douglass Dumbrille; Faye Dunaway; Dan Duryea; Charles Farrell; Frank Ferguson; Mel Ferrer; John Ford; Byron Foulger; Samuel Fuller; Greta Garbo; Judy Garland; Martin Garralaga; Howard Gaye; Janet Gaynor; Gladys George; Stathis Giallelis; Lillian Gish; Ned Glass; Thomas Gomez; C. Henry Gordon; Gene Hackman; Porter Hall; George Hamilton; Robert Harron; Hurd Hatfield; Howard Hawks; Sterling Hayden; James Hayter; Joseph Henabery; Charlton Heston; Darryl Hickman; Peg Hillias; Phillips Holmes; Jack Holt; Tim Holt; Skip Homeier; John Hubbard; Rock Hudson; Arthur Hunnicutt; Jeffrey Hunter; Kim Hunter; Walter Huston; Sam Jaffe; Anthony James; Jennifer Jones; James Robertson Justice; Boris Karloff; Elia Kazan; Buster Keaton; Richard Kiley; Mickey Knox; Burt Lancaster; Fritz Lang; John Larch; Daliah Lavi; Marc Lawrence; Janet Leigh; Vivien Leigh; Margaret Livingston; John Lodge; Tilly Losch; Ida Lupino; Jeffrey Lynn; Sue Lyon; George F. Marion; Mae Marsh; Dean Martin; Lee Marvin; James Mason; Raymond Massey; Virginia Mayo; Mercedes McCambridge; Joel McCrea; Frank McHugh; Frank Middlemass; Charles Middleton; Lita Milan; Vera Miles; Alexis Minotis; Agnes Moorehead; Karen Morley; Chester Morris; Paul Muni; James Murray; Gene Nelson; Paul Newman; Tommy Noonan; George O'Brien; Margaret O'Brien; Carroll O'Connor; Ryan O'Neal; Maureen O'Sullivan; Christopher Olsen; Alfred Paget; John Payne; Jean Peters; Walter Pidgeon; Christopher Plummer; Michael J. Pollard; Dick Powell; Mala Powers; Liselotte Pulver; Anthony Quayle; George Raft; Jane Randolph; Nicholas Ray; William Reynolds; Hari Rhodes; Theodore Roberts; Dewey Robinson; Gilbert Roland; Saul Rubinek; Barbara Rush; Robert Ryan; Eva Marie Saint; Hugh Sanders; Ann Savage; Roy Scheider; Rosanna Schiaffino; Lizabeth Scott; Randolph Scott; Vito Scotti; Omar Sharif; William Sheer; Henry Silva; Simone Simon; Frank Sinatra; Douglas Sirk; Kent Smith; Barbara Stanwyck; James Stewart; Barry Sullivan; Gloria Talbot; Dub Taylor; Gene Tierney; Claire Trevor; Ivan Triesault; King Vidor; Josef von Sternberg; Erich von Stroheim; Murvyn Vye; Raoul Walsh; Henry B. Walthall; Ruth Warrick; Robert Warwick; John Wayne; Orson Welles; Dorothy Coonan Wellman; Richard Widmark; Henry Wilcoxon; Cornel Wilde; Billy Wilder; Shelley Winters; Natalie Wood; Edward Woods; Morgan Woodward; Hank Worden; Fay Wray; Jane Wyman; Michael Henry Wilson
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Runtime: 3:46
• Company: Miramax Films
• Media Format: Movie