The Story of Film – Die Geschichte des Kinos

Alles baut aufeinander auf. Sicher gäbe es ein Kino ohne Lumière, Griffith, Murnau, Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Rossellini, Godard, Altman, Lucas oder Tarantino. Aber wie sähen Filme heute aus, wenn es die Arbeiten dieser Regisseure nicht gegeben hätte? Der Gärtner der Brüder Lumière, Eisensteins Montagekunst, Jean Sebergs Ruf „New York Herald Tribune!“ oder Robert Altmans Plansequenzen haben die Sprache des Kinos verändert. In seinem Dokumentarfilmprojekt THE STORY OF FILM begibt sich Regisseur ...

40 Days to Learn Film

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain aspects related to making films as style, ideas, emotions and practicalities; an ambitious exploration of the universal language of cinema by analyzing pieces of work that cross every artistic and cultural boundaries.

50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland, widely seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles. Mark Cousins – who left Belfast at 18 – returns to his hometown to reflect on how the place and its history have been used and occasionally abused by cinema. He traces how the legacy of division has impacted on the nation’s cinematic imagination; and, in a city that once had one of the highest rates of movie-going in the UK, he scrambles around ...

The Eyes of Orson Welles

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Covering six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other.