Martin Scorsese: My Voyage to Italy

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This is a great, if very lengthy, documentary/sampler of Italian Neo-Realism. It’s a bit like taking a film study survey course!

Directors and their films:

  • Italian epics:
    • Giovanni Pastrone: Cabiria (1914)
    • Alessandro Blasetti: The Iron Crown (1941), Fabiola (1947)
  • Roberto Rossellini: Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), Germany Year Zero (1947), The Miracle (1948), Stromboli (1950), The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Europa ’51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954)
  • Vittorio De Sica: Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Umberto D (1952), The Gold of Naples (1954)
  • Luchino Visconti: Ossessione (1943), Giorni di Gloria (1945), La Terra trema (1950), Senso (1954)
  • Federico Fellini: I vitelloni (1953), La dolce vita (1960), 8½ (1963)
  • Michelangelo Antonioni: L’avventura (1960), L’eclisse (1962)

In the Antonioni segment, Scorseze mentions a few other directors and films influenced with the Neo-Realist style:

  • Jean-Luc Godadrd: My Life To Live, Breathless
  • John Casavetes : Shadows
  • Luis Bunuel: Viridiana
  • Ingmar Bergman: The Silence, Persona
  • Oshima Nagisa (大島 渚): Cruel Story of Youth
  • Glauber Rocha: Antônio das Mortes
  • Imamura Shōhei ( 今村 昌平 ): The Insect Woman (にっぽん昆虫記 Nippon konchuki)
  • Alain Resnais: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad

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