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Director: Mark Cousins Country: United Kingdom Runtime: 900 minutes Producer: John Archer, Sdbfgsgsdgd Hopscotch Films Editor: Timo Langer Principal Cast: Wim Wenders, Gus van Sant, Amitabh Bachchan, Lars Von Trier, Stanley Donen, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion, Claudia Cardinale
An epic 15-part worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made, made over five years on six continents, covering 12 decades and a thousand films. Written and directed by the award-winning Mark Cousins, this definitive series is a love letter to the movies. Telling the history of cinema from the silent era to the digital age, the show visits key cinematic landmarks, from Hollywood to Mumbai, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors.
Epica global vision of cinema Sight and Sound Overwhelming by its richness, depth, and philosophy. IndieWIRE
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Episode 8: New Directors, New Form (1960s) This is the story of the dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world. In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey begin a new era in America cinema. And as the new wave in cinema sweeps around the world, we discover the films of Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkvosky, and Nagisa Oshima. Black African cinema is born and we talk exclusively to the Indian master director Mani Kaul.
Episode 9: American Cinema of the 70s This is the remarkable story of the maturing of American cinema of the late 60s and 70s. Buck Henry, who wrote The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader in New York reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver. Writer Robert Towne explores the dark ideas in Chinatown, and director Charles Burnett talks about the birth of Black American cinema. Episode 10: Movies To Change The World (1970s) This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 70s. We start in Germany with Wim Wenders, then go to Britain in the 70s and talk exclusively to Ken Loach, then travel to Italy, and see the birth of new Australian cinema, and then arrive in Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder questions about film were being asked in Africa and South America, and the story ends with John Lennons favourite film, the extraordinary, psychedelic The Holy Mountain. Episode 11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream (1970s) Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. This episode shows how, and then travels to India where the worlds most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s too. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kick started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix. Episode 12: Fight The Power: Protest in Film (1980s) With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s were the years of protest in the movies. This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing we discover the blossoming of Chinese cinema before the Tiananmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, and in Poland the master director Krzysztof Kieslowski emerges. Episode 13: New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia, Latin America (1990s) Few saw it coming, but cinema around the world in the 90s entered a golden age. The story starts in Iran, where the meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then we meet Shinji Tsukamoto who laid the ground for the bold new Japanese horror cinema. From Tokyo, the story moves to Paris where one of the worlds greatest directors, Claire Denis, talks exclusively about her work. The story ends in Mexico with the blossoming of its new films. Episode 14: New American Independents & The Digital Revolution (1990s) This is the story of the brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantinos dialogue and the edge of the Coen brothers. The writer of Starship Troopers and Robocop talks exclusively about their irony. In Australia, Baz Luhrmann talks about Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge and we plunge into the digital world to see how it has changed the movies forever. Episode 15: Cinema Today and The Future (2000s) In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore, but then David Lynchs Mulholland Drive becomes one of the most complex dream films ever made and Inception turns film into a game. In Moscow, master director Alexander Sokurov talks exclusively about his innovative films and then theres a surprise: The Story of Film goes beyond the present, to look at film in the future.