The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Recently we were lucky enough to see a preview of Mark Cousins’ excellent ‘The Story of Film’, a brand new series airing on More4 from Saturday 3rd September. The series, a collaboration between More4 and FilmFour, is in fifteen parts and will be shown at 9.15pm on Saturday evenings.
Here’s some more information from the Channel4 website:
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is produced by John Archer at Hopscotch Films and written and directed by Mark Cousins and is the 15 part-story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades. It is the adaptation of Mark Cousins' book of the same name, which showed how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other.
Described as a ‘love letter' to the movies, the film visits the key sites in the history of cinema; from Hollywood to Mumbai; from Hitchcock's London to the village where Pather Panchali was shot, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.
www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey
This looks to be an excellent series and we really recommend it to all teachers of film and media studies – in fact, to anyone who loves film.