The Story of Film DVD launch

The Story of Film has been released as a five disc set by Network and Mark's been busy touring the country to enthusiastic acclaim.

It's not just the cinema goers who have been salivating at taking The Story of Film home with them, below is a selection of recent mentions in the press:

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Time Out *****

Geniuenly democratic, honest in its broad perspective, and unusually technically aware, this is the definitive history of cinema's first century and a bit. - Andrew Lowry

Metro *****

Cousins delivers so much information and shows so many of the parallels and influences that pervade this self-referential art form that you're left itching to revisit the classics and discover the surprising gems he's highlighted.

Word Magazine

This Superb piece of work concludes that "the future of cinema is in provacative hands". And with brilliant, passionate archivists like Cousins working in the field, we may also surmise that the future of film criticism is too. - Ali Catterall

 

'Watching Ourselves' launched on BBC Website

A new website has been launched on the BBC to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of broadcasting in Scotland. Hopscotch Films' production Watching Ourselves is a seven part series due to begin 28 March on BBC One Scotland. Greg Hemphill is our guide to the groundbreaking moments of Scottish television; the great stories, drama, laughs and sporting moments over the years.

As the countdown to broadcast begins the BBC website page will host exclusive clips of the series and information on some of the heroes who have made such an impact on our lives. Explore for yourself here.

 

 

The films within the film

The Berlinale Film Festival is over and another group of completists stayed the 15 hour course.

Many have been in touch on our Facebook page to ask about the films included in the Odyssey. So if you're planning your own film marathons you may find this download useful. (Just to warn you, it's quite long)

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Berlinale Festival 2012

Exciting news: Mark Cousins has been invited to screen the full 900 minutes of The Story of Film at this year's International Film festival Berlinale. It will be screened as part of the Berlinale Special programme which features 'new and extraordinary productions'. The festival states the programme's role is to 'to honour great cinema personalities by showing their films and to immerse audiences in cinematic history by screening film classics.' We think Mark is an excellent addition to the selection! See more on the festival website here.

 

The Festival is on between the 9th and 19th of February with the Story of Film on the 16th/17th.

Best of 2011...

The Story of Film has been picked by Time Out magazine as the TV highlight of the year. TV editor Gabriel Tate made Mark Cousin's epic journey across cinema history his number one pick. Read the article here.

Mark Cousins’s monumental undertaking was simply magnificent, keynote television to rank alongside ‘Civilisation’ or ‘The Ascent of Man’. It looked like our dreams, indeed.