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Netflixfan
Wikipedia has a list of the film clips which are featured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_OdysseyFilm Noir World
Highly recommended.In this series Cousins challenges the existing consensus on what makes 'classis cinema' by stating that Hollywood classics are anything but. His two main criteria for what makes movies great are cinematic and narrative innovation and social relevance.
This in itself is a fresh and provocative approach giving plenty of input for healthy debate on what is important in film. And surely not everyone will agree with his point of view. I know I surely didn't.
The very least Cousins does is show that film is indeed a global phenomenon by including fragments from films from the most unlikely places. Through this series I've learnt about films and directors that I probably would have completely missed otherwise.
badblokebob
Surely this should be listed as a mini-series on IMDb (as it's clearly designed as a self-contained single-run series, albeit a long one), and therefore eligible for that top list (once it gets enough votes).No idea how to make that edit on IMDb though...
beavis
found it!http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/the+story+of+film+an+odyssey/elmozg/
NuclearPlanet
This Mini-Series is a brilliant 900 Minute exploration of Cinema. We tend to look at more interesting aspects of all International Cinema that have in some way or another formed the major outline of modern movies.Ibetolis
Simply the finest series about the wonder of cinema from around the globe that anyone has dared to make. Superb!Neville
The word "personal" should be silently inserted in the title by anyone genuinely interested in the "story of film". This might help readers (and viewers) to consider those films and directors who don't make it into the narrative.For example, one outstanding figure of the French New Wave who also stood somewhat out of it by virtue of his more conservative values, namely, Eric Rohmer, doesn't appear at all. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
This example is also a clue to where Cousins' political sympathies lie: with the rebel film-makers whose "messages" veer to the Left, and whose "images and ideas" (to quote Cousins' theme) omit their own totalitarian potential.
beavis
I heard that clips from (exactly?) 1000 movies are used in this docu... would be nice to have a checklist of that!(couldn't find any so far, but that could be poor searching skills on my part)