Entries in John Archer (9)

Sunday
Aug052012

The Story of Film wins award

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
May232012

South China Morning Post features Story of Film

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
May102012

Film List: The Story of Film

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
Feb232012

The films within the film

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)

Click to download.

PDF

Word file

 

Thursday
Jan192012

Berlinale Festival 2012

Exciting news: Mark Cousins has been invited to screen the full 900 minutes of The Story of Film at this year's International Film festival Berlinale. It will be screened as part of the Berlinale Special programme which features 'new and extraordinary productions'. The festival states the programme's role is to 'to honour great cinema personalities by showing their films and to immerse audiences in cinematic history by screening film classics.' We think Mark is an excellent addition to the selection! See more on the festival website here.

 

The Festival is on between the 9th and 19th of February with the Story of Film on the 16th/17th.