The story of film : an odyssey
(DVD)

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Accompanying booklet, entitled Behind The story of film, comprises essays by John Archer and Mark Cousins and a list of featured filmmakers, contributors, and film clips.

Special feature: The story of film in 90 seconds.

Editor, Timo Langer.

Narrator, Mark Cousins.

Filmed on four continents over a six-year span and covering eleven decades and 1,000 films, this ambitious documentary chronicles the history of international cinema and cinematic innovation from the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century to the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st century, showing how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times and by each other. Includes interviews with many well-known 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, and Yuen Woo-Ping.

DVD; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1; 16:9) presentation; 2.0 stereo.