A Letter to Elia 2010

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Documentary

Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films including "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Gentleman's Agreement," "Baby Doll," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "A Face in the Crowd," "America, America," and "The Last Tycoon," and interview footage of the director himself, co-directors Scorsese and Kent Jones recount the director's tumultuous journey from the Group Theatre to the Hollywood A-list to the thicket of the blacklist. But most of all, they make a powerful case for Kazan as a profoundly personal artist working in a famously impersonal industry.

Release Date 2010-09-04
Runtime 60m
Directors Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones, Mark Raker
Producers Taylor Materne, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Stone Douglass, Diane Kolyer, Rachel Reichman
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