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*''[[The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)|The Thief of Bagdad]]'' (1924) (introduced in [[The Story of Film: An Odyssey#Episode 2|Episode 2]]) dir. [[Raoul Walsh]]
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*''[[The Passion of Joan of Arc]]'' (1928) (introduced in [[The Story of Film: An Odyssey#Episode 2|Episode 2]]) dir. [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]]
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*''[[Hyènes]]'' (1992) (aka Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. [[Djibril Diop Mambéty]]
*''[[Kaddu Beykat]]'' (1975) (aka Lettre paysanne) dir. [[Safi Faye]]
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*''[[Harvest: 3,000 Years]]'' (1976) (aka Mirt sost shi amit) dir. [[Haile Gerima]]
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*''[[The Battle of Chile]]'' (1975/1977/1979) (aka La batalla de Chile) dir. [[Patricio Guzmán]]
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a documentary series about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 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.[1]

The series was broadcast in September 2011 on More4, the digital television service of UK broadcaster Channel 4. The Story of Film was also featured in its entirety at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February 2012.[1]

The Telegraph headlined the series' initial broadcast in September 2011 as the "cinematic event of the year", describing it as "visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe, it’s at once a love letter to cinema, an unmissable masterclass, and a radical rewriting of movie history."[3] An Irish Times writer called the program a "landmark" (albeit a "bizarrely underpromoted" one).[4]

In February 2012, A. O. Scott of The New York Times contrasted the project with its "important precursor (and also, perhaps, an implicit interlocutor)", Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma. In contrast to the Godard project, which Scott called "personal, polemical and sometimes cryptic", Scott described Cousins' film as "a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours" that "stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom." He also commended its "refusal to be nostalgic".[1]

List of episodes

Each episode lists the film clips that are featured.[1][2][5][6]

Episode 1

Introduction

1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Artform

Thrill Becomes Story

Episode 2

1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film...

...And the First of its Rebels

Episode 3

1918-1935: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World

Episode 4

The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres...

...And the Brilliance of European Film

Episode 5

1939-1952: The Devastation of War...And a New Movie Language

Episode 6

1953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams

Episode 7

1957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.

Episode 8

1965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World.

Episode 9

1967-1979: New American Cinema.

Episode 10

1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies.

Episode 11

1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the World.

Episode 12

The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World.

Episode 13

1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of Digital.

Episode 14

The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.

Episode 15

2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies.

Epilogue the Year 2046

References

  1. ^ a b c d Scott, A. O. (January 31, 2012). "Your Film of Films: A Sweeping History of an Art". New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Cousins, Mark (2011). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Real To Reel". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  3. ^ Sukhdev Sandhu, "The Story of Film, cinematic event of the year: Mark Cousins's 15-hour television series is an epic journey through the history of cinema, says Sukhdev Sandhu", The Telegraph, (UK) 2 September 2011.
  4. ^ Donald Clarke, "Mark Cousins’s Story of Film", Irish Times, 5 September 2011.
  5. ^ Staff (2012). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey". Channel 4. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  6. ^ Staff (2012). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Episodes". Channel 4. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
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