Word: italianamerican
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...studio pictures: in the operatic intensity of the acting and the camerawork and in their use of music, from arias to doo-wop, to underline an emotion. But he's also done a political doc (the 1970 Street Scenes, about antiwar protests), a loving portrait of his parents (Italianamerican, in 1974), a study of a very colorful friend (American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, 1978), a doc on couturier Giorgio Armani (Made in Milan, 1990) and epic valentines to old American and Italian cinema. His curiosity is insatiable. What he loves, he films...
...immaculate a tailor as Armani, Scorsese makes the tone of each film fit its characters. American Boy, like its subject, is fast, almost frantic, a movie on a cocaine jag. Italianamerican, a conversation with his parents about their lives in New York City's Little Italy and their roots in Sicily, has an earthy, homemade vibe--not surprising since it was made in the home he grew up in. The closing credits include his mom's recipe for spaghetti sauce...
...hottest prevailing winds in the magazine business is the current trend toward special-interest publications. The newest subject of concentration is ethnic pride-magazines addressed to English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian food, wines and the arts. It was quickly followed by a competitor, Identity, a sophisticated blend of Italian American news and culture. Now comes Nuestro, an ambitious four-color monthly for Hispanic Americans. Nuestro hit newsstands last week at $1 an issue with a splashy cover story announcing "The Latino...
...inserts herself directly into her own film, as interrogator and fond grand child and, most tellingly, as explorer, searching for a way back into her own past. This same personal approach is carried even further in the fourth of the quartet by Martin Scorsese's (Mean Streets) singular Italianamerican, which is a portrait of Scorsese's parents as well as a rough sketch for part of the director's autobiography. Scorsese portrays his parents not only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships...
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