Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute. In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller, the director as an illusionist: D.W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on, the director as a smuggler - filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, 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, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.The documentary is structured in segments:Part IThe director's dilemma The director as storytellerThe WesternThe Gangster filmThe MusicalPart IIThe director as illusionistThe director as smuggler IPart IIIThe director as smuggler IIThe director as iconoclast It was originally shown in three parts on Channel 4 in the UK in 1995.. }
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- A_Personal_Journey_with_Martin_Scorsese_Through_American_Movies abstract "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies is a documentary film of 225 minutes in length, presented by Martin Scorsese and produced by the British Film Institute. In the film Martin Scorsese examines a selection of his favorite American films grouped according to four different types of directors: the director as storyteller, the director as an illusionist: D.W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on, the director as a smuggler - filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, 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, Nicholas Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Sam Peckinpah.The documentary is structured in segments:Part IThe director's dilemma The director as storytellerThe WesternThe Gangster filmThe MusicalPart IIThe director as illusionistThe director as smuggler IPart IIIThe director as smuggler IIThe director as iconoclast It was originally shown in three parts on Channel 4 in the UK in 1995.".