The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Mark Cousins
Presenter / Narrator / Creator / Director
Mario Cordova
Narratore
Juan Diego Botto
Narrator
Tabitha Jackson
Executive Producer
John Archer
Producer
Agnes de Mille
Self
Claudia Cardinale
Self
Lars von Trier
Self
Paul Schrader
Self
Aleksandr Sokurov
Self
Norman Lloyd
Self
Jane Campion
Self
Sam Neill
Self
Gus Van Sant
Self
Wim Wenders
Self
Kyōko Kagawa
Self
Ken Loach
Self
Mani Kaul
Self
Buck Henry
Self
Robert Towne
Self
Haskell Wexler
Self
Charles Burnett
Self
Bernardo Bertolucci
Self
Stanley Kwan
Self
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 3, 2011
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes15
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his 2004 book The Story of Film.The series was broadcast in September 2011 on More4, the digital television service of UK broadcaster Channel 4. The Story of Film was featured in its entirety at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and at the 2012 Istanbul International Film Festival. It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February 2012. It was broadcast in the United States on Turner Classic Movies, beginning in September 2013.The Telegraph headlined the series' initial broadcast in September 2011 as the "cinematic event of the year", describing it as "visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe, it’s at once a love letter to cinema, an unmissable masterclass, and a radical rewriting of movie history." An Irish Times writer called the programme a "landmark" (albeit a "bizarrely underpromoted" one). The programme won a Peabody Award in 2013 "for its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema history."In February 2012, A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Cousins' film as "a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours" that "stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom." Contrasting the project with its "important precursor (and also, perhaps, an implicit interlocutor)", Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma, Scott commended Cousins' film as "the place from which all future revisionism must start".