By drax on Skatehive
In 1995, when the film world was celebrating the first century of the Seventh Art, numerous esteemed filmmakers from different countries marked the occasion by producing documentaries for the British Film Institute dedicated to their national cinemas. The honour of representing American cinema fell to Martin Scorsese, who directed A Personal Journey Through American Movies, an epic three-part documentary that portrayed the history of Hollywood. From today's perspective, that choice seems truly justified, as one could say that Scorsese is now the most esteemed and, for evaluating the work of his colleagues, one of the most meritorious Hollywood filmmakers. He has managed to maintain his reputation even in the last few decades, when the quality of his output has been considerably inferior compared to the classics he made from the 1970s to the 1990s. This can primarily be interpreted by the fact that Scorsese invested significant effort to make each of his films as different as possible f