Ten years after providing a guided tour of film history in his 15-hour documentary series, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins “Cinematic Stories: A New Generation”.
This latest installment is a satisfying international survey in which narrator Cousins applies his analytical eye to a film that still has a place in our hearts. If you feel like you haven’t seen enough of important films like Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor (2016) and Matti Diop’s Atlantics (2019), Cousins explores their visual strategies. so you’ll want to see it again.
Cousins’ assessment is highly controversial, but as he argues, “Booksmart” does not agree that it “expands the world of cinematic comedy,” or that the shots of “It Follows” are shot by Michael. Camera work for Snow’s groundbreaking experimental film “La Région Centrale”.
Despite leading in “Joker” and “Frozen”, Cousins goes far beyond the titles familiar to Western audiences, and has been the subject of Indian films (“Wassaypool Gang”, “Why”). ) has been particularly admired. Also featured are works that test the limits of cinema, including Beyoncé’s visual his album Lemonade, Tsai’s Ming-liang’s virtual girlfriend reality experiment ‘The Deserted’, and the interactive ‘Bandersnatch’ episode ‘Black Mirror’. doing.
If anything, the change in technology—there has been discussion of “Tangerine” and “Leviathan” filmed on the iPhone, and according to Cousins, filmmakers have taken the fisheye concept literally by attaching cameras to fish. I did — impatient. When Cousins says lockdowns have given people time to watch “much more movies” and “when public life returned, we marched to the movies again”, his “we” It doesn’t quite match the income reality.”A New Generation” means looking forward to a bright future in filmmaking, but it could also be a future that never materializes.
Cinematic Story: A New Generation
Unrated. Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes. at the theater.