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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Academy Award® Winner Martin Scorsese's tribute to the films of Academy Award0®-Winning director Elia Kazan. In this deeply moving documentary, Scorsese pers...

Elia Kazan the director bravely and artfully confronted some of the more pressing social issues of his time: topics such as class division, bigotry and corruption. Read an essay on the life and career of this Hollywood icon.

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

TELLURIDE, Colo. -- Many people know that in addition to being an Oscar-winning director, Martin Scorsese is a major film buff and historian as well as a champion of film preservation. In the course of his long career, he has been involved with several documentaries celebrating o

A Letter to Elia Scorsese and co-helmer Kent Jones' tribute to Elia Kazan keeps the helmer's films front and center.

Review: "A Letter To Elia"

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.

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 direct