Mark Cousins Movies

  • 2014
    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

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    A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

    The Film That Buys the Cinema
  • 2019
    50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

    50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

    50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

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    The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland, widely seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles....

    50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
  • 2009
    The First Movie

    The First Movie

    The First Movie

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    Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on...

    The First Movie
  • 2005
    On the Road with Kiarostami

    On the Road with Kiarostami

    On the Road with Kiarostami

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    Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank...

    On the Road with Kiarostami
  • 2013
    A Story of Children and Film

    A Story of Children and Film

    A Story of Children and Film

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    A meticulous essay on the presence and representation of children in the history of cinema, in which cinematographies from all over the world are...

    A Story of Children and Film
  • 2013
    Apollo: First War Cinema

    Apollo: First War Cinema

    Apollo: First War Cinema

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    In 1993 Sarajevo was under the siege. Against all odds a small group of enthusiasts managed to open the First War Cinema in Sarajevo. For them this...

    Apollo: First War Cinema
  • 2019
    You With Your Fresh Thoughts

    You With Your Fresh Thoughts

    You With Your Fresh Thoughts

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    A moment on Rose St, Edinburgh, where Margaret Tait used to live.

    You With Your Fresh Thoughts
  • 2023
    The Complete Story of Film

    The Complete Story of Film

    The Complete Story of Film

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    At 18 hours and 43 minutes long, 'The Complete Story of Film' collects two epic documentaries by Mark Cousins into a stunningly expansive global...

    The Complete Story of Film
  • 2012
    What Is This Film Called Love?

    What Is This Film Called Love?

    What Is This Film Called Love?

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    What is this film called Love? is a passionate, 77 minute poetic documentary about the nature of happiness.

    What Is This Film Called Love?
  • 2005
    Cinema Iran

    Cinema Iran

    Cinema Iran

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    Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

    Cinema Iran
  • 2016
    I Am Belfast

    I Am Belfast

    I Am Belfast

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    Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the...

    I Am Belfast
  • 2022
    The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart

    The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart

    The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart

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    A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke, Becky Manson and Mark Cousins. A musical melange of fiddles, friendship and a search for home. An...

    The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
  • 2016
    Bigger Than The Shining

    Bigger Than The Shining

    Bigger Than The Shining

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    Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) reflects on questions concerning copyright and the extent to which a film can conform to the...

    Bigger Than The Shining
  • 2014
    But Then Again, Too Few to Mention

    But Then Again, Too Few to Mention

    But Then Again, Too Few to Mention

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    To celebrate the online release of the British Council's Film Collection - an archive of 120 short documentaries made throughout the 1940s to...

    But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
  • 2020
    40 Days to Learn Film

    40 Days to Learn Film

    40 Days to Learn Film

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    For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

    40 Days to Learn Film
  • 2023
    Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

    Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

    Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

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    In Mark Cousins’ meditative documentary, Lynda Myles, an influential connoisseur of cinema, reflects on her adventures in the film culture she...

    Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
  • 2021
    The Story of Looking

    The Story of Looking

    The Story of Looking

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    As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives....

    The Story of Looking
  • 2016
    Stockholm, My Love

    Stockholm, My Love

    Stockholm, My Love

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    Stockholm My Love is a city symphony, a love letter to Stockholm, the fiction debut of director Mark Cousins and the acting debut of musician Neneh...

    Stockholm, My Love
  • 2021
    The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel

    The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel

    The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel

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    A first encounter. At the Venice Film Festival. A second encounter. Again the Venice Film Festival. A crescendo of curiosity, wish to know and...

    The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
  • 1993
    Another Journey By Train

    Another Journey By Train

    Another Journey By Train

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    Four young neo-Nazis travel across Europe discussing their beliefs and their disbelief in the Holocaust. They meet several Holocaust survivors on...

    Another Journey By Train