Screenplay:
Martin ScorseseCinematography:
Jean-Yves EscoffierComposer:
Elmer BernsteinCast:
Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Arthur Penn, Gregory Peck, George Lucas, Clint Eastwood, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Samuel Fuller, Kathryn Bigelow (more)Plots(1)
Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century's great directors and film historians. The film consists of head & shoulder shots of Scorsese speaking into the camera for a minute or two, followed by 10-15 minutes of film clips with Scorsese voice-over. Scorsese approaches the films in terms of how they affected him as a director foremost and as a storyteller/film fan second. Segments include "The Director as Smuggler," "The Director as Iconoclast", and so on. The Journey begins with silent masters like D.W. Griffith and ends in 1969 - when Scorsese began to make films. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Martin Scorsese
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Billy Wilder
Austria-Hungary
Arthur Penn
USA
Best movies:
Naked in New York (1993)
Gregory Peck
USA
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Big Country (1958)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
George Lucas
USA
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Men in Black (1997)
Clint Eastwood
USA
Best movies:
Gran Torino (2008)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Brian De Palma
USA
Best movies:
Greetings (1968)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
Best movies:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
War Hunt (1962)
Palo Alto (2013)
Samuel Fuller
USA
Best movies:
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
The State of Things (1982)
Kathryn Bigelow
USA
Best movies:
Born in Flames (1983)
André De Toth
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
Kent Smith (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Sayonara (1957)
Margaret Livingston (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Smart Money (1931)
Tommy Noonan (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
Born to Kill (1947)
The Set-Up (1949)
Trevor Bardette (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Dewey Robinson (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Scarlet Street (1945)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Robert Harron (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
True Heart Susie (1919)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
John Hubbard (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Cimarron Kid (1952)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Berton Churchill (a.f.)
Canada
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)