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My Voyage to Italy

Martin Scorsese's 4 hour long intimate cinematographic experience "My Voyage to Italy" (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) explains his passion of Italian cinema and describes the way it influenced him. He takes notes of many influential films particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.
The films of Roberto Rossellini make up for half the films discussed in the entire documentary, dealing with his seminal influence on Italian cinema and cinema history. Other directors mentioned include Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni.

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