The Story of Film An Odyssey
The Story of Film An Odyssey
The Story of Film An Odyssey
Introduction
1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Art form or Birth of the Cinema
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Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
Souls on the Road (aka Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
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Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
I Flunked, But... (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
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La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
Napoléon (1927) dir. Abel Gance
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene
The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein
The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang
The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau
Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
Entr'acte (1924) dir. René Clair
Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buñuel
Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
L'Age d'Or (1930) dir. Luis Buñuel
Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov
Glumov's Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma
Arsenal (1928) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
I Was Born, But... (1932) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
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The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz
Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li
Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi
The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang
Centre Stage (1992) dir. Stanley Kwan
New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng
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The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson
Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray Müller
Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor Fleming
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Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater
Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles
Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke
Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco
Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch
Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann
Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang
The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner
Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
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Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel Carné
La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir
Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer
Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn
L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson
Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
Siva (1989) dir. Ram Gopal Varma
Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz
An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli
The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings
Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
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The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
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La perla (1947) dir. Emilio Fernández
Los Olvidados (1950) dir. Luis Buñuel
All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) dir. David Helpern
Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger
Scorpio Rising (1964) dir. Kenneth Anger
Marty (television show) (1953) dir. Delbert Mann
Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann
On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan
Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson
Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles
The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford
Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Rio Bravo (1959) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Howard Hawks
Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean
O Dreamland (1953) dir. Lindsay Anderson
Battleship Potemkin (1925) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
...And God Created Woman (1956) dir. Roger Vadim
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
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Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Jacques Tati
Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
Fellini's Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
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A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Sergio Leone
Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
L'eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache
1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies.
Fox and His Friends (1975) (aka Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (aka Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Alice in the Cities (1974) (aka Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
Gods of the Plague (1970) (aka Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (aka Das zweite Erwachen der Christa
Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
Arabian Nights (1974) (aka Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (aka Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
The Conformist (1970) (aka Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese
Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
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Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
Black Girl (1966) (aka La noire de...) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Ousmane Sembène
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Hyènes (1992) (aka Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Kaddu Beykat (1975) (aka Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (aka Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
Umut (1970) (aka Hope) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (aka La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
The Holy Mountain (1973) (aka La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
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A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
The Matrix (1999) dir. Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray
Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (aka Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha
Akkad
The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman &
Christopher Penfold
The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. George Lucas
The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Triumph of the Will (1935) (aka Triumph des Willens) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Leni
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Riefenstahl
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Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
A Hard Day's Night (1964) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Richard Lester
The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand
Episode 13 - New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
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Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Tokyo Story (1953) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Vive L'Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Videodrome (1983) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. David Cronenberg
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
La Roue (1923) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Abel Gance
Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
The Exorcist (1973) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. William Friedkin
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Audition (1999) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Takashi Miike
Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Do the Right Thing (1989) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Spike Lee
Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
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Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
Code Unknown (2000) (aka Code inconnu) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Michael Haneke
Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
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.
References [edit]
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2. ^ a b
Cousins, Mark (2011). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Real To Reel" . Toronto International
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3. ^ King, Susan (2 September 2013). " 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' gives a non-Hollywood
history" . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Donald Clarke, "Mark Cousins’s Story of Film" , Irish Times, 5 September 2011.
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6. ^ 73rd Annual Peabody Awards , May 2014.
7. ^ Staff (2012). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" . Channel 4. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
8. ^ Staff (2012). "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Episodes" . Channel 4. Retrieved 5 February
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