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Italianamerican (1974)

October 1, 197449mEN
6.7

79 votes

Overview

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

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Original Language

Italian

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National Communications Foundation

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7.0

Italianamerican is a 1974 documentary, not even an hour long, wherein acclaimed director Martin Scorsese interviews his parents, Catherine (she played Tommy DeVito's mother in Goodfellas) and Charles (he played Henry Hill's cellmate in the same film), forming an interesting time capsule of the Italian-American experience. Scorsese's parents relate detailed accounts of being Sicilian immigrants in New York City, their family lives, and "the old country" after the war. This is a very talking heads-ish doc with numerous still photos and a bit of footage interspersed in it. However, Catherine has…

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