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The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV Series)

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

Mark Cousins

Documentary, Self: Aleksandr Sokúrov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier ...

8.2

3,613

TV Series. Documentary 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 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'.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The results of [Cousins's] his dogged research, compulsive travel and hard thinking are exemplary, useful and sometimes thrilling."	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"As a film-studies course, 'The Story Of Film' is perfectly fine (...) Cousins doesn’t stop only at the usual ports of call."	POS
United States	John Semley Slant	"Essential viewing, if not only for its edutainment factor, but for the dynamism and felt resonance of its maker’s bounding enthusiasms (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robert Epstein The Independent	"This is a truly global, stunning and richly rewarding magnum opus."	POS
United States	Mark Freeney Boston Globe	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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