My Voyage to Italy

1999 film directed by Martin Scorsese

My Voyage to Italy

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Directed by| Martin Scorsese
Written by| Kent Jones
Raffaele Donato
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Martin Scorsese
Produced by| Giorgio Armani
Starring| Martin Scorsese (host)
Edited by| Thelma Schoonmaker
Distributed by| Miramax Films

Release date

* September 11, 1999 (1999-09-11)

Running time

| 246 minutes
Countries| United States
Italy
Languages| English
Italian
German

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 account 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 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.[1]

## Films discussed

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* 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

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1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: My Voyage to Italy". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

## Further reading

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* 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

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* My Voyage to Italy at IMDb

External videos

"My Voyage to Italy" narrated by Martin Scorsese in 1997

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Martin Scorsese

* Awards and nominations
* Filmography
* Bibliography
* Unrealized projects

Narrative feature films|

* Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
* Boxcar Bertha (1972)
* Mean Streets (1973)
* Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
* Taxi Driver (1976)
* New York, New York (1977)
* Raging Bull (1980)
* The King of Comedy (1982)
* After Hours (1985)
* The Color of Money (1986)
* The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
* Goodfellas (1990)
* Cape Fear (1991)
* The Age of Innocence (1993)
* Casino (1995)
* Kundun (1997)
* Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* The Aviator (2004)
* The Departed (2006)
* Shutter Island (2010)
* Hugo (2011)
* The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
* Silence (2016)
* The Irishman (2019)
* Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Short films|

* What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? (1963)
* It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
* The Big Shave (1967)
* "Bad" (1987)
* New York Stories (segment "Life Lessons", 1989)
* Made in Milan (1990)
* The Key to Reserva (2007)
* The Audition (2015)

Produced only|

* The Grifters (1990)
* Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
* Clockers (1995)
* The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
* The Young Victoria (2009)
* Maestro (2023)
* Die, My Love (TBA)

Television|

* "Boardwalk Empire" (2010)
* Vinyl (2016)
* Pretend It's a City (2021)
* Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints (2024)
* An Afternoon with SCTV (TBA)

Documentaries|

* Street Scenes 1970 (1970)
* Italianamerican (1974)
* American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978)
* The Last Waltz (1978)
* A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
* My Voyage to Italy (1999)
* The Blues: Feel Like Going Home (2003)
* No Direction Home (2005)
* Shine a Light (2008)
* A Letter to Elia (2010)
* Public Speaking (2010)
* George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
* The 50 Year Argument (2014)
* Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)

Related|

* Collaborations
* Robert De Niro
* Leonardo DiCaprio
* "Scorsese Baby Daddy"
* Sikelia Productions
* Goncharov

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