My Voyage to Italy

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Бавуу Э @RT26109709 07/26/2024 This highly personal documentary follows revered Italian-American director Martin Scorsese as he revisits his childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and discusses the influential films that he watched in his youth. The movies effectively serve as a partial history of Italian cinema, with Scorsese expounding on his admiration for filmmakers such as Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others. See more Bahad j @RT27093708 07/26/2024 There is no way not to praise each other's actors in this film. Really great acting. Of course, the main character was the best. See more Munkhjargal A @RT28084692 07/26/2024 this is another great movie. because this documentary about the relationship between Italy and America has become a wonderful film that is famous all over the world. See more 07/28/2020 This is an exceptional review of many of the most significant films in the early to mid-century history of Italian cinema. As such, they are also among the most important an influential films ever made, especially for European filmmakers. Scorsese is both an extremely knowledgeable and experienced guide through these films, having seen most of them numerous times, and an ardent fan celebrating the movies that made such indelible impressions on him that he became a filmmaker himself. For me, the last third of this documentary/history lesson is by far the most interesting. Here, we get the masterworks of Fellini and Antonioni; for me, the two greatest directors Italy has given us. And above all others, its Scorsese's thoughts on 8 1/2 and the images he chose from that most brilliant and visionary of Italian films. 4.2 stars See more 01/06/2016 random choice of the day, Marty's distcinive voice and its signature passion guides us thru his love of Italian cinema...a must see for fans of Scorsese and film in general See more 11/12/2014 Review: Man, this 4 hour documentary really seemed to go on forever. It's full of footage from the early years in Italian cinema, but I don't think that I have ever watched an Italian movie. At first, I did find it quite interesting because it was good to see how far the world of cinema has progressed, but I lost interest after a while. I liked when Scorsese was talking about his family and how it was to grow up in America back in the early years, but once he starts to get into the various directors and actors that influenced him to make movies, I did drift off a couple of times. My main problem with the documentary was that I hadn't seen or heard of any of the movies that Scorsese was talking about, so I didn't have a clue why the movies were so important back in a day and age when I wasn't born yet. I can understand how the movies had changed his life, but it's a world that I really can't relate to. In all, it's a well put together documentary which gives a deep insight into a Italian cinema, but you have to have an interest in this genre to be able to find the whole 4 hour experience interesting. Average!  Round-Up: Scorsese really hasn't lost his touch nowadays, and he is still pulling in huge audiences at the box office. This documentary really does show that he was a lover of movies at a really early age and it gives a complete different point of view about the world of cinema. With movies like the Taxi Driver "You Talking To Me", to films like Goodfellas and Casino, I doubt that were ever going to get a director that can mix deep drama with heavy violence so well. After watching were he got his influences from, it really doesn't seem like he would ever make movies the way that he does. Maybe thats because of his unique vision which your everyday person well never be able to create, write or direct, because he is coming from such a different angle which is deeply rooted inside him. As I director, I rate him highly, but as a documentary, it's just way too long.  Budget: N/A Domestic Gross: $11,600 I recommend this movie to people who are into there documentaries which show the many movies and actors which have influenced Martin Scorsese to make movies. 4/10 See more Read all reviews

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