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'''''A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies''''' is a four-hour [[documentary]] in which Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to three different types of directors: the director as an illusionist: Griffith or Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appeareance of sound and color possible later on, the director as a smuggler - filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films and the director as an iconoclast, those filmmakers attacking social conventionalism — Chaplin, Von Stroheim, Welles, Kazan,Kubrick, Penn, and Peckinpah.
'''''A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies''''' is a four-hour [[documentary]] in which [[Scorsese]] examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to three different types of directors: the director as an illusionist: [[D.W. Griffith]] or [[F. W. Murnau]], who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appeareance of sound and color possible later on, the director as a smuggler - filmmakers such as [[Douglas Sirk]], [[Samuel Fuller]], and [[Vincente Minelli]], who used to hide subversive messages in their films and the director as an iconoclast, those filmmakers attacking social conventionalism — [[Charles Chaplin]], [[Erich Von Stroheim]], [[Orson Welles]], [[Elia Kazan]], [[Stanley Kubrick]], [[Arthur Penn]], and [[Sam Peckinpah]].
==External links==
==External links==
*{{imdb title|id=0112120|title=A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies}}
*{{imdb title|id=0112120|title=A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies}}

Revision as of 13:37, 16 December 2005

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a four-hour documentary in which Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to three different types of directors: the director as an illusionist: D.W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appeareance of sound and color possible later on, the director as a smuggler - filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films and the director as an iconoclast, those filmmakers attacking social conventionalism — Charles Chaplin, Erich Von Stroheim, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.