The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
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Episodes
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1. Birth of the Cinema2011-09-03 · 1h 3mMark Cousins tells the story of cinema, starting in this episode with the birth of the movies, telling the glamorous, surprising stories of early moviemaking and the first film sta
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2. The Hollywood Dream2011-09-10 · 1h 3mMovies in the Roaring Twenties: Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry with star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But the gloss and fantasy was chall
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3. The Golden Age of World Cinema2011-09-17 · 1h 3mThe 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. The programme visits Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to explore the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of
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4. The Arrival of Sound2011-09-24 · 1h 3mThe coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discove
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5. Post-War Cinema2011-10-01 · 1h 3mMark Cousins explores how the trauma of war led to more daring creations for cinema, focusing on the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy years. Screenwriters P
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6. Sex & Melodrama2011-10-08 · 1h 3mSex and melodrama in the movies of the fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies th
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7. European New Wave2011-10-15 · 1h 3mThe explosive story of film in the late fifties and sixties: The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini; in Denmark, Lars von Trier describes h
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8. New Directors, New Form2011-10-22 · 1h 3mThe dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A S
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9. American Cinema of the 70s2011-10-29 · 1h 2mThe maturing of American cinema of the late sixties and seventies: Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader reveals his t
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10. Movies to Change the World2011-11-05 · 1h 3mThe movies that tried to change the world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini in Italy; the birth of new Australian cinema; and then Japan, wh
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11. The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream2011-11-12 · 1h 3mStar Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doin
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12. Fight the Power: Protest in Film2011-11-19 · 1h 3mProtest in the movies of the 1980s: brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema
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13. New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America2011-11-26 · 1h 3mFilm in the 1990s enters a surprise golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then, in Tokyo, we meet Shinji Tsukamoto, who la
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14. New American Independents & The Digital Revolution2011-12-03 · 1h 4mBrilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English speaking world in the nineties. We look at what was new in Tarantino’s dialogue and the edginess of the Coen Brothers. The writer o
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15. Cinema Today and the Future2011-12-10 · 1h 4mMovies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore. But then David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive becomes one of the most complex dream films
Cast
Mark CousinsPresenter / Narrator
Mario CordovaNarratorImages
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