A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies
a BFI TV production; for Channel 4 in association with Miramax Films; produced by Florence Dauman; written and directed by Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Edition:
- Standard format
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1995
- Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment, [2004]
- Distribution:
- Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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- Summary:
- Film director Martin Scorsese presents a look at the American film and its practitioners, from silents to the movies of the 1970s, and discusses how it has shaped his own artistic vision.
- Table of Contents:
- Director's dilemma: mastering the creative process
- Director as storyteller: the western, the gangster film, the musical
- Director as illusionist: controlling and mastering the technical process
- Director as smuggler: the metaphor behidn the vision
- Director as iconoclast: asserting personal expression.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Soundtrack in English; subtitles in English. Closed-captioned.
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- System Details:
- DVD player required; stereo., Dolby 2.0 surround; region 1.
- Performers:
- Host, Martin Scorsese.
- Production Credits:
- Director of photography, Jean Yves Coffier ; editors, David Lindblom, Kenneth I. Lewis ; narrator, Martin Scorsese ; music by Elmer Bernstein.
- General Notes:
- Disc 1 is double-sided: side A contains part 1, side B contains part 2.
Originally produced for television in 1995. - Audience:
- Not rated (source: Miramax Home Entertainment)
- Physical Description:
- 2 DVDs : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- PER DVD
- ISBNs:
- 0788823477
9780788823473 - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 717951010476
Publisher Number, Miramax Home Entertainment: 20672 - OCLC Numbers:
- 226260516
