MY VOYAGE TO ITALY

(1999) Director: Martin Scorsese

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SUMMARY:

My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) is a personal documentary by acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.
The films of Roberto Rossellini make up for half the films discussed in the entire documentary, dealing with his seminal influence on Italian cinema and cinema history. Other directors mentioned include Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni.

VIDEO: FULL FEATURE



REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CREDITS:

• BBC audio interview excerpts:

1. The first film he saw at four years old
2. The importance of people and their emotions in his pictures
3. Being at NYU and knowing he was going to be a director
4. Where he got the new style for Good Fellas and the story behind the film
5. The violence in his films and how autobiographical his work is
6. Why he thought Raging Bull would be his last film
7. Which of his films has pleased him most and which has disappointed him

• Slant Magazine review
• LA Times review
  
• Essay on Scorsese from Senses of Cinema
• Jim Jarmusch interviews Martin Scorsese about his documentary work
  

NOTES:

• "The more films I made, the more I realized what an indelible mark Italian cinema had left on me." - Martin Scorsese
• Some of Scorsese's favorite directors at work (PHOTO)