American Masters  A Letter to Elia

Watch Martin Scorsese's documentary, a labor of love, honoring the legendary Elia Kazan Details

 
 

Program: American Masters

Episode: A Letter to Elia

For Martin Scorsese, growing up in Little Italy, seeing On the Waterfront and East of Eden as a young man was a life-changing experience. Scorsese appears on and off camera throughout A Letter to Elia, taking us through Kazan's life and through his own as well, and through his growing realization that there was an artist behind the camera, someone "who knew me, maybe better than I knew myself."

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Duration: (1:25:40)
Premiere Date: 10/04/2010
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: TV-PG


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