Thompson on Hollywood: TCM Presents Mark Cousins' 15-Part Epic 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' with Sprawling Classic Film Series (CLIPS)

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TCM Presents Mark Cousins' 15-Part Epic 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' with Sprawling Classic Film Series (CLIPS) Jun 27th 2013, 17:43 Beginning September 2, Turner Classic Movies presents the U.S. television debut of Mark Cousins' 15-part historical journey through cinema, "The Story of Film: An Odyssey," which premiered on British TV in 2011. But there's more.  Through December 9, TCM will supplement this brilliant, epic documentary with 119 films and dozens of shorts from Cousins' handpicked cinematic canon, from early works of the Lumiere Brothers all the way to Alexander Sokurov's single-take historical drama "Russian Ark" and more. TCM calls this its most "amibitious and far-reaching programming event ever." Naturally, TCM host Robert Osborne will introduce each week's episode with commentary. A native of Ireland, Cousins is not only a great director on his own, but he is also a deeply knowledgable critic and historian. But "The Story of Film" is not your run-of-the-mill film studies survey. This is Cousins' maddening, fascinating revisionist look at cinema, with an acute attention to developments in... Media files: mark-cousins.png (image/jpeg)

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