Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones on ON THE WATERFRONT
On the Waterfront • 17m
Director Martin Scorsese has often acknowledged his debt to the films of Elia Kazan, most explicitly in the documentary A LETTER TO ELIA, which he codirected with filmmaker and critic Kent Jones. In this conversation, recorded in 2012, Scorsese and Jones discuss Kazan and ON THE WATERFRONT.
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