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The story of film : an odyssey

Call Number

  • DVD 791.4309 S8874 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Ill. : Music Box Films, [2013]

Physical Description

5 videodiscs (915 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The story of film: an odyssey is an epic journey through the history of world cinema. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, the 15-part love letter to the movies begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and concludes with the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st. Featuring contributions from legendary filmmakers including Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles Burnett, Jane Campion, Claudia Cardinale, Youssef Chahine, Terence Davies, Claire Denis, Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Schrader, Alexander Sokurov, Robert Towne, Gus Van Sant, Sharmila Tagore, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Haskell Wexler, Yuen Woo-Ping.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on television in the United Kingdom in 2011.

Contents

  • Disc 1. 1895-1918: The world discovers a new art form ; 1918-1928: The triumph of American film and the first of its rebels ; 1918-1932: The Great Rebel filmmakers around the world
  • Disc 2. The 1930s: The great American movie genres and the brillance of European film ; 1939-1952: The devastation of war and a new movie language ; 1953-1957: The swollen story : world cinema bursting at the seams
  • Disc 3. 1957-1964: The shock of the new, modern filmmaking in Western Europe ; 1965-1969: New waves sweep around the world ; 1967-1979: New American cinema
  • Disc 4. 1969-1979: Radical directors in the 70s make state of the nation movies ; The 1970s and onward: Innovation in popular culture and around the world ; The 1980s: Moviemaking and protest around the world
  • Disc 5. 1990-1998: The last days of celluloid, before the coming of digital ; 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.

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