Italianamerican

Name: Italianamerican
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-10-01
Duration: 49 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Martin Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Catherine Scorsese

Rating

5.0 (1)

Release Date

10/1/1974

Runtime

49 mins

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A warm, unhurried conversation with Scorsese's aging parents that becomes a meditation on immigrant life, family bonds, and the quiet accumulation of a lifetime together. Watching it feels like sitting at their dinner table while they share stories.

Mood

IntimateWistfulContemplative

Themes

FamilyMemoryMigration

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeHandheld

Structure

Framed flashback

Catherine Scorsese

Self

Charles Scorsese

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self (uncredited)

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

i could listen to them talking for hours.
sweet unlike scorsese's films.
its comforting, the interior of the place, furniture, its like your in the perfect grandpa and grandmother home.
its crazy but this should be one of the examples of how documentaries are important and fun.
it takes me back to when i was little everytime i went to my grandmothers home. she's gone now but all those memories are still with me.
now for scorsese's parents, they will forever live on in this and thats perfect.
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