A sequel of sorts to A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES (1995), this four-hour documentary is an excellent guide to some of the highlights of post-World War II Italian cinema. Narrated by Scorsese (who also appears frequently on camera), the film begins in the early 1940s when the future filmmaker was growing up on New York's Lower East Side. Living in an all-Italian neighborhood, Scorsese was exposed to his homeland’s films at a young age; every weekend the local TV stations would run scratchy prints of Italian movies in their original language and his extended family would gather around the set to watch. The first Italian film he remem...
Released:
1999
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
246 mins