MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
In 1995, Martin Scorsese made a miniseries documentary about his love of U.S. cinema, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, that was amazingly passionate and inspirational. (For a stretch, my son went to sleep every night working his way through the VHS tapes.) Four years later, Scorsese did a sequel, My Voyage to Italy, that was just as entertaining and educational a personal tour through a country’s cinematic history. And Scorsese’s documentaries inspired lots and lots of people – including French director and film historian Bertrand Tavernier, who made his own cinematic tour, this long and loving documentary, in 2016. TCM presents its TV premiere tonight – fittingly, on Bastille Day.