Martin Scorsese on Giant (1956), directed by George Stevens: "I’ve seen this film over forty times. I don’t like the obvious romanticism, and it’s very studied, but there’s more here than people have seen. It has to do with the depiction of a life style through the passage of so many years. You see people grow. I like James Dean; I like the use of music, even though Dmitri Tiomkin did it…" The full text is available for our subscribers | History of Cinema