SummaryFilm-maker Mark Cousins provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and tells the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation. (Channel 4 Film)
Directed By:Mark Cousins
Written By:Mark Cousins
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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May 17, 2012
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Is The Story of Film worth 15 hours of your viewing life? Well, that's between you and your kino conscience. The first part certainly is. Cousins is extremely good at laying out the emergence of a film grammar. More important, he communicates the sense of wonder and excitement that characterized the emergence of so astonishing a medium.
Jan 31, 2012
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More irksome, the clips, often improperly masked or displaying conversion issues, are rarely drawn from the best available materials. This scruffiness would be easily forgiven if there were something sufficiently "innovative" in Cousins's approach to transcend the cut-rate production value. Instead, this Story, for all its claims of rewriting, is too reliant on received film-buff wisdom.
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Production Company:
- Hopscotch Films
- UK Film Council
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- Film4
- More4
- Creative Scotland
- MEDIA 2
Release Date:Feb 3, 2012
Duration:15 h
Tagline:A passionate ode to cinema, spanning 6 continents, 12 decades and 1,000 films.
Awards
Peabody Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Traverse City Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
