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  • 2022
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 40 m
  • 2022
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 40 m

Summary A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world...

  • 2022
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 40 m
  • 2022
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 40 m

The Story of Film: A New Generation

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
77
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8% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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100
Jul 14, 2021
What sets it soaring is the discerning guide at its helm, one whose curatorial exultation and rigor are also calming, reassuring — a welcome voice in cacophonous times.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 20, 2022
A lack of flash or energy does nothing to detract from the sheer depth of film exploration present in The Story of Film: A New Generation.
By Josiah Teal FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 17, 2021
It would be wrong to describe A New Generation as a mere coda to The Story of Film. Clocking in at a weighty 160 minutes, the documentary travels to every corner of cinemaspace.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 14, 2021
What is invigorating about The Story of Film is that each new clip, each new comment, is an exercise in back to basics, an exercise in looking, and looking again and looking harder – something that’s even more difficult when it feels like we’re drowning in content.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 8, 2022
Watching “Story,” one realizes that so much of what most of us most love about the movies isn’t the medium, per se, but its appurtenances: stardom and glamour and the pull of narrative. What Cousins loves is the medium. We love the effects. He loves the cause.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 8, 2022
Cousins’s assessments offer plenty to argue with, but it’s possible to enjoy “A New Generation” without agreeing that “Booksmart” “extends the world of film comedy,” as he claims, or that a shot in “It Follows” merits comparison to the camerawork in Michael Snow’s landmark experimental film “La Région Centrale.”
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 14, 2021
Cousins is insightful, thorough in his technical comparisons, and well-read in the library of cinema, yet never quite connects his work to a larger tapestry that extends the form.
By Warren Cantrell FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hopscotch Films
Release Date Sep 9, 2022
Duration 2 h 40 m
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Website https://storyoffilm-japan.com/
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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