Martin Scorsese has chosen the upcoming London International Documentary Film Festival to host the UK premiere of his so-called "labour of love" Letter to Elia.
This highly personal feature documentary looks at the life and influence of Greek-American director/actor Elia Kazan. Scorsese (pictured) recalls how seeing Kazan's On the Waterfront and East of Eden was a life-changing experience for himself as a young man growing up in Little Italy.
He takes us through Kazan's life and his own as well, and his growing realisation that there was an artist behind the camera, "someone who knew me better than I knew myself."
Letter to Elia is about being exposed to the right movies at the right moment in adolescence and being inspired to chart a course into filmmaking.
Also debuting at the event will be Brigitte Berman's Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel along with Steven Soderberg's entertaining...
This highly personal feature documentary looks at the life and influence of Greek-American director/actor Elia Kazan. Scorsese (pictured) recalls how seeing Kazan's On the Waterfront and East of Eden was a life-changing experience for himself as a young man growing up in Little Italy.
He takes us through Kazan's life and his own as well, and his growing realisation that there was an artist behind the camera, "someone who knew me better than I knew myself."
Letter to Elia is about being exposed to the right movies at the right moment in adolescence and being inspired to chart a course into filmmaking.
Also debuting at the event will be Brigitte Berman's Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel along with Steven Soderberg's entertaining...
- 4/29/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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