Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 4:32PM Hopscotch is delighted by the news that The Story of Film has been awared the Stanley Kubrick prize at Traverse City Film Festival! Michael Moore who founded the festival now in its eighth year, said Mark Cousins' documentary was "one of the greatest" and one "we'll be watching all our lives."
Well done Mark!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 2:12PM Mark Cousins was recently interviewed for the South China Morning Post. This lovely spread was featured on 20th May. Click here to download the PDF.
"The film is a dream come true."- Mark Cousins
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 3:31PM So hopefully by now you'll have seen the series, bought the DVD, asked Mark Cousins some questions and found some new favourite films!
Too much to take in? Don't worry you can download a pdf of all the films featured in the 15 hour journey and start your own movie oddysey!
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:32PM The Story of Film has been released as a five disc set by Network and Mark's been busy touring the country to enthusiastic acclaim.
It's not just the cinema goers who have been salivating at taking The Story of Film home with them, below is a selection of recent mentions in the press:
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Time Out *****
Geniuenly democratic, honest in its broad perspective, and unusually technically aware, this is the definitive history of cinema's first century and a bit. - Andrew Lowry
Metro *****
Cousins delivers so much information and shows so many of the parallels and influences that pervade this self-referential art form that you're left itching to revisit the classics and discover the surprising gems he's highlighted.
This Superb piece of work concludes that "the future of cinema is in provacative hands". And with brilliant, passionate archivists like Cousins working in the field, we may also surmise that the future of film criticism is too. - Ali Catterall
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:58PM The Berlinale Film Festival is over and another group of completists stayed the 15 hour course.
Many have been in touch on our Facebook page to ask about the films included in the Odyssey. So if you're planning your own film marathons you may find this download useful. (Just to warn you, it's quite long)
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John Archer, Mark Cousins, The Story of FIlm in The Story of Film 