SCORSESE AT THE MOVIES: SELECTIONS FROM THE MARTIN SCORSESE COLLECTION AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
A Summerlong Tribute to American Cinema's Cinephile Laureate
June 28–September 12,
In recognition of the importance of The Martin Scorsese Collection, part of
which is housed at The Museum of Modern Art's new Celeste Bartos Film
Preservation Center, the Department of Film and Video presents a summerlong
retrospective that highlights works acquired by Martin Scorsese during the past
fifteen years. The series, Scorcese at the Movies: The Martin Scorsese
Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, begins Friday, June 28, and ends
Thursday, September 12.
Of particular interest to Scorsese are films made in Hollywood, New York, and
London during the two decades following World War II, when inventive directors
infused filmmaking with new ideas and methods and wide-screen formats and color
processes offered challenges to the filmmaker. The Scorsese Collection is
notably rich in the genres of film noir, science fiction and horror, and the
Western, and includes wide-screen biblical epics and B-movies, unsung in their
time, that are considered classics today. The retrospective includes
masterworks as well as lesser-known films from these genres.
Throughout his directing career Martin Scorsese has pursued his passion for the
history and preservation of the motion picture; this avocation has included the
establishment of The Film Foundation, a group of prominent filmmakers, to
support restoration efforts at The Museum of Modern Art and other film archives
throughout the United States.
Taking the lead among his contemporaries, Scorsese has stressed the importance
of saving the films that inspired and informed his own work. He has assembled
an outstanding collection of films, dating from the 1930s through the
mid–1990s, at The Museum of Modern Art and The International Museum of
Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
The Museum of Modern Art stores part of The Martin Scorsese Collection in its
Film Preservation Center, in Hamlin, Pennsylvania. The Center provides
state-of-the-art collection management capability including 56 temperature– and
humidity-controlled vaults holding 13,000 titles of international film art. The
finest facility of its kind in the country, the Center celebrates its official
opening on June 20, 1996.
The retrospective presents films by Lewis Allen, Robert Aldrich, Jack Arnold,
Roger Corman, Delmer Daves, Cecil B. DeMille, Allan Dwan, André de Toth,
Elia Kazan, Phil Karlson, Henry King, Albert Lewin, Arthur Lubin, Anthony Mann,
William Cameron Menzies, Lewis Milestone, Kurt Neumann, Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Carol Reed, Robert Rossen,
Robert Siodmak, Douglas Sirk, Jacques Tourneur, Edgar G. Ulmer, King Vidor,
Raoul Walsh, and Orson Welles.
Scorcese at the Movies: The Martin Scorsese Collection at the Museum of Modern Art,
was organized by Mary Lea Bandy, Chief Curator, Department
of Film and Video, with the generous cooperation of Martin Scorsese.
