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My Voyage to Italy
Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Written by	Kent Jones Raffaele Donato Suso Cecchi d'Amico Martin Scorsese
Starring	Martin Scorsese (host)
Release date(s)	September 11, 1999
Running time	246 minutes
Country	United States Italy
Language	English/Italian/French/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 make up 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, 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

Paisà (1946)
Fabiola (1947)
The Iron Crown (1941)
Cabiria (1914)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Germany Year Zero (1947)
L'Amore — "The Miracle" ("Il Miracolo") segment by Rossellini (1948)
Stromboli (1950)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
Europa '51 (1952)
Shoeshine (1946)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Umberto D (1952)
The Gold of Naples (1954)
Ossessione (1943)
Giorni di Gloria (1945)
La Terra trema (1950)
Senso (1954)
I vitelloni (1953)
La dolce vita (1960)
Journey to Italy (1954)
L'avventura (1960)
L'eclisse (1962)
8½ (1963)

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: My Voyage to Italy". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2001151/year/2001.html. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

External links

My Voyage to Italy at the Internet Movie Database

Films by Martin Scorsese

1960s	Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)

1970s	Boxcar Bertha (1972) • Mean Streets (1973) • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) • Taxi Driver (1976) • New York, New York (1977)

1980s	Raging Bull (1980) • The King of Comedy (1983) • After Hours (1985) • The Color of Money (1986) • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

1990s	Goodfellas (1990) • Cape Fear (1991) • The Age of Innocence (1993) • Casino (1995) • Kundun (1997) • Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

2000s	Gangs of New York (2002) • The Aviator (2004) • The Departed (2006)

2010s	Shutter Island (2010)

Shorts	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) • Life Lessons (1989)

Documentaries	Street Scenes (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 (2003) • No Direction Home (2005) • Shine a Light (2008)

Produced	You Can Count on Me (2000) • Nyfes (2004) • The Young Victoria (2009)

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