My Voyage to Italy (1999)

My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) is a personal documentary by 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 account for half of 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 and Michelangelo Antonioni.

It was released in 1999 at a length of four hours. Two years later, it was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Films discussed

Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) (1945), directed by Roberto Rossellini

Paisà (1946), directed by Roberto Rossellini

1860 (1934), directed by Alessandro Blasetti

Fabiola (1949), directed by Alessandro Blasetti

The Iron Crown (La corona di ferro) (1941), directed by Alessandro Blasetti

Cabiria (1914), directed by Giovanni Pastrone

La terra trema (1948), directed by Luchino Visconti

Bicycle Thieves (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Fantasia sottomarina (1940), directed by Roberto Rossellini

Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) (1954), directed by Roberto Rossellini

La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966), directed by Roberto Rossellini

Germany Year Zero (1947), directed by Roberto Rossellini

The Miracle (Il miracolo) segment (1948) of L'Amore, directed by Roberto Rossellini

Stromboli (1950), directed by Roberto Rossellini

The Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) (1950), directed by Roberto Rossellini

Europa '51 (1952), directed by Roberto Rossellini

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1932), directed by Mario Camerini with Vittorio De Sica as Bruno

Il signor Max (1937), directed by Mario Camerini with Vittorio De Sica as Gianni/Max Varaldo

Shoeshine (Sciuscià) (1946), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Umberto D (1952), directed by Vittorio De Sica

The Roof (Il tetto) (1956), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Two Women (La ciociara) (1961), directed by Vittorio De Sica

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) (1970), directed by Vittorio De Sica

The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli) (1954), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Les Bas-fonds (The Lower Depths) (1936), directed by Jean Renoir

Ossessione (1943), directed by Luchino Visconti

Giorni di Gloria (Days of Glory) (1945), directed by Giuseppe De Santis, Mario Serandrei, Marcello Pagliero and Luchino Visconti

Bellissima (1951), directed by Luchino Visconti, with Alessandro Blasetti, a film director, appears as himself.

Senso (1954), directed by Luchino Visconti

I vitelloni (1953), directed by Federico Fellini

La Strada (1955), directed by Federico Fellini

Nights of Cabiria ( Le notti di Cabiria) (1957), directed by Federico Fellini

La Dolce Vita (1960), directed by Federico Fellini

8½ (1963), directed by Federico Fellini

Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce, Italian Style) (1961), directed by Pietro Germi

L'avventura (1960), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

La Notte (The Night) (1961), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

L'eclisse (1962), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

References

Further reading

Holden, Stephen (October 12, 2001). "Scorsese Pays Tribute to Italian Cinema". The New York Times. The four-hour film is a sequel of sorts to this director's comparably sweeping 1995 television documentary, "A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies." It's no exaggeration to say that watching both films will forever change and deepen the way you look at cinema.

External links

My Voyage to Italy at IMDb