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A Letter to Elia is a 2010 documentary film directed by Kent Jones and Martin Scorsese that follows the life and career of film director Elia Kazan and how he influenced Scorsese. Made from clips from films, stills, readings from Kazan's autobiography, a speech he wrote on directing read by Elias Koteas, a videotaped interview done late in ...
Oct 4, 2010 · A Letter to Elia: Directed by Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese. With Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, Elias Koteas. A documentary on the late Elia Kazan.
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- Documentary
- Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese
- 2010-10-04
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.
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Sep 8, 2010 · September 8, 2010 11:58 am. Not at all a conventional biographical documentary, Martin Scorsese’s and Kent Jones’s “A Letter to Elia” is instead an intensely personal and deep exploration...
A Letter to Elia, written and directed by Scorsese and his longtime collaborator Kent Jones, is a deeply personal film, a frank portrait and self-portrait, and an equally frank...
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Brief Synopsis. Documentary covers the life of the late filmmaker Elia Kazan, who rose to prominence with films like "On the Waterfront" (1954), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), "Baby Doll" (1956), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945) and "A Face in the Crowd" (1957).
Kent Jones. Director. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Martin Scorsese uses film clips and interview footage to illustrate the life and work of director Elia Kazan.
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