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 Doll," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "A Face in the Crowd," "America, America," and "The Last Tycoon," and interview footage of the director himself, co-directors Scorsese and Kent Jones recount the director's tumultuous journey from the Group Theatre to the Hollywood A-list to the thicket of the blacklist. But most of all, they make a powerful case for Kazan as a profoundly personal artist working in a famously impersonal industry.
Unfortunately the movie A Letter to Elia is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Martin Scorsese | Director |
Directing | Kent Jones | Director |
Crew | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Thanks |
Crew | Luc Dardenne | Thanks |
Camera | Mark Raker | Director of Photography |
Production | Emma Tillinger Koskoff | Producer |
Production | Stone Douglass | Executive Producer |
Production | Diane Kolyer | Consulting Producer |
Production | Martin Scorsese | Producer |
Production | Taylor Materne | Executive Producer |
Production | Rachel Reichman | Co-Producer |
Editing | Rachel Reichman | Editor |