The Story of Film - An Odyssey

09:41 mareku 0 Comments

I am totally fascinated by the 15(!) part documentary "The Story of Film" by Mark Cousins. It takes a little bit to get used to his particular way of pronouncing (Scottish) but when you are in his quest you are definitely in.  I have learned all kind of things I didn't know - or which I took for granted and his comparison between original ideas and "quotes" in movies is just stunning. It is a masterpiece on it's own with (amazingly restored) fragments of classics like Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Battleship Potemkin and Nyobo Funshitsu.