The Story of Film: An Odyssey by Mark Cousins

Director Mark Cousins’s fifteen-part documentary about the story of cinema, all the way from its birth to the present, will be shown at the Centre for Fine Arts during a three-day marathon on 1, 2, and 3 March. A definite must-see for film buffs who don’t mind taking their time. Mark Cousins has a remarkable reputation as a film journalist and director. He has made a series of documentaries on a wide range of subjects, such as neo-Nazism, Iranian cinema, the first Gulf War… He has published four books (including the written version of The Story of Film), and has founded a travelling film festival grown from a portable cinema on a truck he drove around the Scottish Highlands. For five years he introduced cult films and classics in the BBC programme Moviedrome with great enthusiasm. Now, the time has come to see the man himself give a live introduction for his latest series, The Story of Film, right here in Brussels.
Last year, this fifteen-hour long documentary was already a great success at the Ghent Film Festival in October. Cousins’s love letter to cinema, and creative and rebellious films in particular, was six years in the making, and passes through four continents, taking us on a journey from the very beginning of cinema in Europe and the US, to the digital movie industry of the present day. The Story of Film covers more than a thousand films and includes interviews with directors such as Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this epic oddysey of film history on the big screen!

The Story of Film: An Odyssey by Mark Cousins • 1, 2 & 3/3, €10, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux Arts - Centre for Fine Arts, rue Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussel/Bruxelles, 02-507 82 00, www.bozar.be