The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV Mini Series)
Sex & Melodrama (2011)
Mark Cousins: Self - Presenter
Quotes
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Mark Cousins - Presenter : Kurosawa's work became, in effect, a style book for cinema. He was like a one-man film school.
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Mark Cousins - Presenter : [about All that Heaven Allows, 1955] The film used the gloss of Hollywood to attack gloss.
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Mark Cousins - Presenter : The magic techniques for George Belias begot Cocktail, begot anger, begot Scorsese and Lynch. Quite a chain of command.
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Mark Cousins - Presenter : The story of Indian film is as vast as the country. India knew as much if not more about devastation as Europe in the '50s. De-colonialization, partition, famine, and the caste system had traumatized it. In all this turmoil you'd think that the country would have no time for cinema. But you'd be wrong. By the 1950s, India seemed made for cinema. It's colors seemed to have the hand of a production designer, back then. It's luminosity as the feel of a studio arc light.
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Mark Cousins - Presenter : She had the kind of beauty that made the box office go kerching. There is nothing ambiguous about this stare. Bardot's hair was unkempt, she refused to dress like a posh Parisian woman. Eventually she brought more money to the French economy than the motor car manufacturer, Renault.