Podcasts about film an odyssey

February 27, 2025 ~ Greg Russell from Movie Show Plus reviews "Riff Raff" in Theaters and "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" on Amazon Prime.

This week I'm joined by Mark Cousins, the writer and director of the new documentary, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock. We talked about his movie's unorthodox presentation, why Hitchcock remains eternally relevant, and how he puts together his incredible video essays. (If you've never seen his The Story of Film: An Odyssey, you really should.) And then he turned the tables on me with some closing questions! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!

Politician and voter suppression activist Stacey Abrams is joined by her co-producer Kristi Jacobson regarding a new documentary they have, along with Selena Gomez, made called "Louder: The Soundtrack of Change" which is available on Max. The documentary is a celebration of music and rallying cry across generations, genres, anchored by female icons whose songs and activism inspired the fight for equality, empowering all. The film also includes appearances by Melissa Ethridge, Linda Ronstadt, Chaka Kahn, H.E.R., Kathleen Hanna and many other musical artists. Also on this episode the documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins ("The Story of Film: An Odyssey") with his latest film "My Name is Alfred Hitchcock", Cousins' documentary re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice. It premieres theatrically on Friday, October 25 in NYC and L.A.

At the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Charles and Graham take the opportunity to interview documentary filmmaker, author, curator and former EIFF director, Mark Cousins and talk to him, in particular, about his latest book, Dear Orson Welles and Other Essays, a series of ‘conversations' with the artists, poets, directors, and filmmakers who have most influenced and inspired him, from Orson Welles to Tilda Swinton.Mark Cousins is a documentary filmmaker, author and curator. His films have dealt with subjects such as neo-Nazism, childhood imagination and the cinema of Iran. His feature The First Movie won the Prix Italia. His most recent film, The Story of Film: An Odyssey took six years to make. As an author, he has published several books, including Imagining Reality, The Faber Book of Documentary (as co-editor), the acclaimed book The Story of Film, published in Europe, the United States and Asia, the collection of essays on cinema: Watching Real People Elsewhere. Mark also famously took the Edinburgh International Film Festival to Sarajevo during that city's siege. He was co-artistic director of Cinema China, and of the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, part of his ongoing collaboration with Tilda Swinton. They recently devised a cinema in Beijing and did A Pilgrimage, in which they pulled a cinema across Scotland. He is honorary doctor of letters at the University of Edinburgh. In the past, Cousins directed and presented the BBC's Scene by Scene, which ran for five years, screening career interviews with, among others, Martin Scorsese, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Jeanne Moreau and Rod Steiger. Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:X@2big_egosFacebook@twobigegos

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a special bonus episode! Have you ever wondered what Alfred Hitchcock might have to say about his films if he were still with us today? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Story of Film: A New Generation tackles the question of how Hitchcock's vast body of work and legacy holds up in today's society as well as looking at the auteur with a new and radical approach-through the use of his own voice. Yes that's right, as Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his career-including his silent films, his work in the 50s and 60s and his later works in the most playful and revealing of ways in Mark's new documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock. Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she interviews the director and writer to discuss his new documentary MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK. MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK is in cinemas and on demand from 21st July and you can visit the website www.alfred-hitchcock.film for more information. Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

In 2011, filmmaker Mark Cousins released his award-winning documentary, The Story of Film: An Odyssey . It's a film that's true to its title. Through 15 episodes and 915 minutes, it provides an expansive, detailed look at cinema that explores the history of the medium. Mark recently followed up The Story of Film with two new chapters, titled: The Story of Film: a New Generation. The new documentary covers dozens of more titles and moments in film history, and adds another 150 minutes to the original series. Mark Cousins joins Bullseye to talk about what inspired him to continue his The Story of Film documentary. He also talks about why he prefers to go to the theater to see films rather than watching them at home. Plus, he tells us about the legit piece of movie history he brings with him wherever he goes.

A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world cinema from 2010 to 2021, using a surprising range of works—including Frozen, The Babadook, and Cemetery of Splendour—as launchpads to explore recurring themes and emerging motifs, from the evolution of film language, to technology's role in moviemaking today, to shifting identities in 21st-century world cinema. Touching on everything from Parasite and The Farewell to Black Panther and Lover's Rock, Cousins seeks out films, filmmakers and communities under-represented in traditional film histories, with a particular emphasis on Asian and Middle Eastern works, as well as boundary-pushing documentaries and films that see gender in new ways. And as the recent pandemic recedes, Cousins ponders what comes next in the streaming age: how have we changed as cinephiles, and how moviegoing will continue to transform in the digital century, to our collective joy and wonder.  Director Mark Cousins stops by for an optimistic conversation on the state of filmmaking in every corner of the world and how that will continue to feed our collective imagination and our eternal desire to tell our stories. For more: musicboxfilms.com/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week, and part of its celebration of our collective return to movies is the world premiere of The Story of Film: A New Generation, from filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins. The latest work from Cousins looks at the most recent decade in cinema and sets out to pick the movies that brought something new to the art form. Cousins has taken on the herculean task of charting film history before, most famously on an even larger scale with The Story of Film: An Odyssey, and with works such as Women Make Film, A Story of Children and Film, and early on, Cinema Iran. I reached Cousins at his office slash editing suite, and we talked about a few of the movies he selected from the 2010s (and a few that he didn't). But he also had fascinating reflections about how we all watch cinema, about VR, and about his childhood memories of watching movies. Stay tuned to The Last Thing I Saw for more highlights in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. You can support this podcast and read show notes with links at: rapold.substack.com Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.  

This podcast was created by the JCT English team for the Junior Cycle Talks podcast channel. Spinning Stories Out of Light is a series of podcasts exploring film in the junior cycle classroom. Our panellists discuss how the study of film can enhance learning. They also share their own classroom approaches to the teaching of film. This episode features director and film writer Mark Cousins. His work includes Women Make Film, documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey and book The Story of Looking.

for our penultimate episode of 2020, be prepared to hear the phrases "greatest film of all time" and "pauline kael" too many times as we reflect on sam's first viewing of CITIZEN KANE at the PCC and netflix's MANK renders emmett considerably upset. we also approached fragments of o. welles' filmography from TOO MUCH JOHNSON to F FOR FAKE and discussed a couple of critical debates about KANE's authorship. bibliography below: 'Too Much Johnson', National Film Preservation Foundation, https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/lost-and-found-mercury-theater-films Bazin, Andre, "Orson Welles: a Critical View" (trans. Jonathan Rosenbaum, New York, 1978). Carringer, R.L., ‘The Scripts of “Citizen Kane”’, in Critical Inquiry Vol 5. No. 2 (1978), 369-400. Cousins, Mark 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' (2011) Kael, Pauline, ‘Raising Kane’ in The Citizen Kane Book (New York, 1971). Mulvey, Laura, "BFI Classics: Citizen Kane" (London, 1992). Rosenbaum, Jonathan, ‘I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to ‘Raising Kane’’ in Film Comment, Spring 1972, reprinted in "Discovering Orson Welles" (Berkeley, 2007). 'Sartre and Borges on Welles', The Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/12/sartre-and-borges-on-welles/ soundtrack features phil graves’ renditions of: ‘the union forever’ by the white stripes ‘citizen kane suite’ by bernard hermann & ‘three keys for the large door’ by phil graves

The non-fiction filmmaker Mark Cousins ("The Story of Film: An Odyssey", "The Eyes of Orson Welles") makes his first appearance on the podcast. We discuss Mark's techniques in filmmaking and narration. Mark then unexpectedly turns the tables on his interviewer.

Jakso 38: Women Make Film osat 1 - 2 Sivupolkujen tekijät käyvät keväällä 2020 läpi Yle Areenasta löytyvän Women Make Film -dokumenttisarjan jaksoja pohtien sen tiimoilta elokuvia ja muitakin asioita. Marin ja Paavon vahvistuksena toimii tässä jaksossa Laura. Sarjan linkki Areenaan: https://areena.yle.fi/1-50092554 Story of Film (saman dokumentaarikon ensimmäinen sarja): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey

You go girl, learn some film history! This week, John, Erika, Jesse, and Stewart find body positivity with Netflix’s Dumplin’ (Danielle Macdonald), a full-figured highschooler who, with the help of Dolly Parton and some drag queens, ends up competing in her mother’s (played by Jennifer Aniston) beauty pageant. Even Stew found it heartwarming. The team went to film school watching the first three episodes of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, streaming on Hulu. The Irish filmmaker/narrator brings poeticism to content potentially dry to non-nerds like us. Follow us on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram "night vibe" available via Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ "Fairuz - Adaysh Kan Fi Nas (Lo-Fi Hip Hop Redux)" available via Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In this episode, Justin, Chris and Mike discuss "What's On Our Mind" this week before moving into a review for the latest S. Craig Zahler film, Dragged Across Concrete.  RUNDOWN -  - Intro (00:00:00 - 00:04:03)       - Intro - What's On Our Minds (00:04:03 - 00:34:20)       - Justin - The Story of Film: An Odyssey       - Mike - The Wife       - Chris - The Beach Bum, Dumbo - Dragged Across Concrete (00:34:20 - 01:27:38)       - Spoilers start at (01:02:48)  - Outro (01:27:38 - 01:29:02)    Visit www.reeloutreach.com and donate to help underprivileged kids get to the theaters to see Captain Marvel!  Follow us on: Twitter Facebook Instagram Email us at: casualcinemedia@gmail.com Talk Criterion Collection, film, tv and other stuff with us in our Facebook group at:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/casualcinecast/ Intro/Outro Music courtesy of Jake Wagner-Russell at www.soundcloud.com/bopscotch

Why is No Country For Old Men great? In this episode, Andrew and Drew dive into a modern classic. Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen and starring Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin, this 2007 film explores good and evil in the current age. We gather ideas and resources from other sources, and bring some of our own, to dig into why we love the filmmaking prowess on display in this movie. But first, a warning: spoilers ahead. Go watch the film on Netflix, then come back ? LINKS Stream No Country For Old Men on Netflix YouTube: No Country For Old Men: Ending Explained YouTube: No Country for Old Men - An explanation YouTube: No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience No Country For Old Men Script To Screen OTHER MOVIES WE MENTION The Town (2010), dir. Ben Affleck, starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), dir. Mark Cousins OUR SPONSOR Riveter Solutions www.rivetersolutions.com CONNECT WITH US Instagram Facebook Twitter Stardust Andrew's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/asweat08/ Drew's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/drewfoote91/ Support the show Email us at Andrew@ArthouseGarage.com

Ben Pearson joins Peter Sciretta for the News: John Powell Will Compose The 'Han Solo' Movie Score Despite Rumors, David Ayer Reassures That He's Still Involved with ‘Gotham City Sirens' IMAX is Starting to Ditch 3D, Citing ‘Clear Preference' for 2D In The Mailbag: Tyler from Orlando asks “I've never been to film school or taken any film studies courses but I am infatuated with movie history. I've watched the Mark Cousin documentary, The Story of Film: An Odyssey. It was a tremendous watch and would recommend it very highly. But I would like to know what books you would recommend that cover interesting/impactful epochs of film history.” Ben recommends: The Secret History of Hollywood podcast You Must Remember This podcast Waking Sleeping Beauty documentary Peter recommends: the documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film Written by: Peter Biskind Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System By Sharon Waxman The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up by David Rensin Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting By William Goldman DisneyWar by James B. Stewart The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A Price The Making of Star Wars books from JW Rinzler In Our Feature Presentation, Jacob Hall joins us to discuss his visit to the set of Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's It. You can find all that and more at slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). This podcast is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. We're still very much experimenting with this podcast, please feel free to send your feedback to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.  

Today's Guest: Mark Cousins documentary director, The Story of Film: An Odyssey Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of American film students who think they know it all after watching all of the Harry Potter and Twilight films… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Order 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' by Mark Cousins, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the DVD box set above! There is a lot an American can learn about film from an Irishman. Mark Cousins’ new 15-hour documentary, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, offers a perspective that is dramatically different from a Hollywood-centric view of the celluloid universe. He packs this surprisingly fast-moving epic with film clips and filmmaker interviews from around the world, from Bernardo Bertolucci, director of The Last Emperor, to American Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate. In between, he visits sites of film history on every continent and takes a global view of an industry that Americans incorrectly think of as all theirs. MARK COUSINS audio excerpt: "Live cheaply. Don't got to restaurants. Don't take taxis. If you live cheaply, you don't have to earn much. When you work for low budget, you have creative freedom, which is the best best thing for a filmmaker. I could focus on who did great things at different points in film history."  As a student of cinema myself – my fraying degree is in film studies from the University of Florida, where I studied everything from New Wave French and German cinema to the entire Charlie Chaplin catalog – I’ve become accustomed to movie travelogues that will be 80 percent Hollywood with a little French, German and Japanese dropped in for flavor. But in The Story of Film: An Odyssey, which was just released as a DVD set, Cousins give the rest of the world its due. You’ll watch this documentary and be introduced to the brilliance of many filmmakers whose names and titles you probably never heard of before. Mark Cousins Twitter • Wikipedia • IMDB • BFI • Order The Story of Film: An Odyssey DVD boxed set from Amazon.com Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

En nuestro nuevo episodio de Señoras de cine divagamos sin rumbo fijo sobre X-Men: Apocalipsis, Peter Tscherkassky's 'The Exquisite Corpus' , Stan Brakhage, As Mil e Uma Noites, Fatima, Albert Serra, The Story of Film: An Odyssey y más cosas que tendréis que averiguar escuchándolo hasta el final.

One rad to rule them all… This week Kyle and Matthew have a wide-reaching conversation about the Lord of the Rings with their expert guests Clifford Broadway and Justin Sewell from TheOneRing.Net. Clifford has read all the books a zillion times over, while Justin got into it by watching the movies. They join forces to talk about the films from the first Hobbit movie to the modern-day remakes (with a detour to discuss Ralph Bakshi). They also discuss Professor J. R. R. Tolkien and his invention of languages, as well as The Silmarillion, and of course, the Beatles movie that never was. Watch Clifford and Justin on "TORn Tuesday" every Tuesday afternoon at 5pm PST on theonering.net or call them anytime at 1-530-6-4FRODO. You can also catch Clifford on ShopXSN.com. Weekly Rads: Jonathan Blow’s Witness, Games Magazine, The Jackie and Laurie Show podcast Raddendums: Leonard Nimoy's "Bilbo Baggins," The Frighteners, The Hobbit by Rankin/Bass (1977), Ralph Bakshi & J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, David Carradine, John Howe's preconceptual artwork, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, The Silmarillion, George R. R. Martin, Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Scandinavian death metal bands, the Air New Zealand safety video, What We Do in Shadows, Howard Shore, The Fellowship documentary, The Ring Squad on YouTube, Russian Ark, The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Happy Hanukkah, listeners! In celebration of the holiday, The Four Seasons of Film is proud to present a very special episode. Nathan and Scotty watch The Ten Commandments (1956) and, of course, do most of the talking for you. They discuss Charlton Heston’s career, Biblical epics, Cecil B. DeMille, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), Marlon Brando, The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), and give TCM and Robert Osborne a run for their money. Give thanks, give blessings, and light the Menorah with the Four Seasons of Film. This episode is sponsored by Philz Coffee. 

Dokumentation: The Story of Film: An Odyssey, GB 2011

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This week we run down the 2012 Golden Globes nominees and give our predictions We also talk about some other movies including Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, Leave the Lights On, I Wish, The Color Wheel, and Sleepwalk with Me We give out some holiday Amazon Blu Ray deals including: A Christmas Story, The Home Alone Collection, Love Actually, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Elf And finally we cover this week's movie predictions and DVD and Blu Ray releases We want to hear your suggestions and feedback! Send us an e-mail at feedback@filmpulse.net or leave us a message on our voicemail line at (850) 391-6071 and we'll feature your comments on the show!

Episode #11 - Gangster Squad & Hansel and Gretel Oh…hey! Did you think we disappeared forever? Nonsense! Fear not dear listeners, for Rewind! is back and doing what it does best: talking about films. This episode we decided to condense a little bit and put both Ruben Fleischer's 'Gangster Squad' and Tommy Wirkola's 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'. Also, because both movies have been out for a few weeks we decided to just jump straight into full discussion with spoilers. So you have been warned! We also talk about some film news (J.J. Abrams now directing Star Wars VII), and some films we've watched since we've been off the air. So snuggle up and listen to us ramble about these two movies. If you enjoyed the podcast, please subcribe to us on iTunes and leave some feedback. You can also email us directly with your thoughts at rewind@franklyspeakingmedia.com. Thanks! Chapters: Intro & Film News (00:00:00) Weekly Mentions (00:09:35) Gangster Squad (00:15:37) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (00:30:43) Weekly Mentions: House of Cards, Cloverfield, The Americans, Arrested Development, Star Strek, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, King of the Nerds

Mark Cousins - The Story of Film: An Odyssey. An extended interview with award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins. The Rail Way Man - actors Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and screenwriter Andy Paterson discuss shooting Eric Lomax's best-selling book, THE RAILWAY MAN in Scotland. Piggy - Martin Compston discusses UK revenge thriller "Piggy" Dear Georges Melies, Thank you for Making the Movies Magical - a location report with Mark Cousins and Tilda Swinton. Café De Flore - Paul Gallagher reviews this mystical and fantastical odyssey on love; a love story between a man and woman, And, between a mother and her son.