April 12, 2011

Jim Jarmusch interviews Martin Scorsese about Italianamerican

Italianamerican is a 1974 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese’s parents, Catherine and Charles Scorsese, feature in this homemade documentary acting as themselves. The Scorseses talk about their experiences as Italian immigrants in New York among other things, while having dinner at their flat on Elizabeth Street. Scorsese’s mother also instructs how to cook her meatballs, a recipe later featured in the credits of the film. Among the subjects discussed in the film are family, religion, their origins, Italian ancestors, life in Italy after the war, the hardships of poor Sicilian immigrants in America striving to make ends meet.

The documentary, broken into five parts, is available on YouTube.

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  1. Amanda Mae on April 12th, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Seeing/hearing Scorsese and DiCaprio interviewed/talk this past year was one of the best things I’ve ever done.

  2. Sheila Ryan on April 12th, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    Scorsese is one of those few film artists dating from what I judge the “generation before me” whom I don’t judge as a betrayer of what I love in film.

    Okay. That is extreme, and I will gladly discuss it later.

  3. Amanda Mae on April 13th, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Fishing…. with John.

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