Country: USA
Year: 2004
Duration: 52'
A documentary realized to support the fundraising
campaign promoted by American Express to reopen the Statue of Liberty,
closed since September 11, 2001.
"It was an interesting challenge, everything was very compressed.
American Express called Martin, 'Can you do this?', 'Yes, but I'm not
interested in flag-waving, can we do this?', 'Yes', and then we started.
We had to do all the financial stuff, all the production stuff, all the
research stuff, all the writing, all the filming, all the editing, all
at the same time." (K. Jones)
"The Statue of Liberty has worldwide significance and I am grateful to
American Express for giving me the opportunity to help in the effort to
reopen her doors. The Statue had a profound effect on my grandparents
when they first arrived in America in the early 20th century. Through
the documentary, I hope to convey that the ideas and values the Statue
symbolizes are as powerful and relevant today as they were when the
statue was dedicated back in 1886. Reopening the Statue to the public is
crucial, and I am pleased to be a part of such an important campaign."
(M. Scorsese) Kent Jones, critic and essayist, writes for "Film
Comment," "Artforum" and "Cahiers du Cinéma." He co-wrote with Martin
Scorsese the documentary My voyage to Italy (1999).
Biography
film director
Martin Scorsese
(New York, USA, 1942) graduated from New York University in 1964 and debuted in feature films three years later with Who’s That Knocking at My Door? He then made movies such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver (Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976), Raging Bull, After Hours, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed (Oscar for Best Director), and The Irishman, making a name for himself as one of the most important directors in American film (and more), right from the first half of the 1970s. He founded The Film Foundation and thanks to its work he has helped discover, conserve, and restore many films from all over the world. He has tied his name to stars such as Robert De Niro and Leonardo Di Caprio, but has also worked with Harvey Keitel, Joe Pesci, Willem Dafoe, Jerry Lewis, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Daniel Day Lewis, Sharon Stone, Kate Blanchett…
FILMOGRAFIA
Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967), Boxcar Bertha (America 1929 - Sterminateli senza pietà, 1972), Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Italianamerican (doc, 1974), Taxi Driver (id., 1976), New York, New York (id., 1977), The Last Waltz (L’ultimo valzer, 1978), Raging Bull (Toro scatenato, 1980), The King of Comedy (Re per una notte, 1983), After Hours (Fuori orario, 1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (L’ultima tentazione di Cristo, 1988), Goodfellas (Quei bravi ragazzi, 1990), Cape Fear (Cape Fear - Il promontorio della paura, 1991), The Age of Innocence (L’età dell’innocenza, 1993), Casino (Casinò, 1995), Kundun (id.,1997), Bringing Out the Dead (Al di là della vita, 2000), Gangs of New York (id., 2002), The Aviator (id., 2004), No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (id., doc., 2005), The Departed (The Departed - Il bene e il male, 2006), Shutter Island (id., 2010), George Harrison - Living in the Material World (doc., 2011), Hugo (Hugo Cabret, 2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (id., 2013), Silence (id., 2016), The Irishman (id., 2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (id., 2023).
Kent Jones
Kent Jones, critic and essayist, writes for "Film Comment," "Artforum" and "Cahiers du Cinéma." He co-wrote with Martin Scorsese the documentary My voyage to Italy (1999).
FILMOGRAFIA
FILMOGRAFIA ESSENZIALE/ ESSENTIAL FILMOGRAPHY Kent Jones Lady By the Sea (co-Regia Martin Scorsese, doc, 2004).
