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- 2012
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h
Summary Film-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
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
6.5
Summary Film-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
Top Cast
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.
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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Generally Favorable
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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 1 h
Rating Not Rated
Genres
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
