Title:
The story of film an odyssey
Publication Information:
[Chicago, Ill.] : Music Box Films, [2012]
Physical Description:
5 videodiscs (915 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (43 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.)
General Note:
Originally broadcast as a television program in 2011.
Contents:
Disc 1. 1895-1918. The world discovers a new art form -- 1918-1928. The triumph of American film and the first of its rebels -- 1918-1932. The Great Rebel filmmakers around the world -- Disc 2. The 1930s. The great American movie genres and the brillance of European film -- 1939-1952. The devastation of war and a new movie language -- 1953-1957. The swollen story : world cinema bursting at the seams -- Disc 3. 1957-1964. The shock of the new, modern filmmaking in Western Europe -- 1965-1969. New waves sweep around the world -- 1967-1979. New American cinema -- Disc 4. 1969-1979. Radical directors in the 70s make state of the nation movies -- The 1970s and onward. Innovation in popular culture and around the world -- The 1980s. Moviemaking and protest around the world -- Disc 5. 1990-1998. The last days of celluloid, before the coming of digital -- The 1990s. The first days of digital : reality losing its realness in America and Australia -- 2000 onwards. Film moves full circle and the future of movies.
Summary:
The story of film: an odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion dollar globalised digital industry. Described as a 'love letter' to the movies, Cousins visits the key sites in the history of cinemal from Hollywood to Mumbai; from Hitchcock's London to the village where Pather Panchali was shot, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC.
