Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins is an Irish documentary filmmaker, film critic and programmer. A prolific producer and director, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey" (2011). Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013, as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and University of Stirling in 2014. He is now a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival. He is a Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019, as well as Member of the Official Competition jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, Cousins joined the jury of the BFI London Film Festival.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.573 |
| Birthday | 1965-05-03 |
| Place of Birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Also Known As | Марк Казинс, |
2013
A Story of Children and Film
7.1/22
A meticulous essay on the presence and representation of children in the history of cinema, in which cinematographies from all over the world are anal...
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A Story of Children and Film
2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
0/0
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
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The Film That Buys the Cinema
2011
Cinema Is Everywhere
9/2
A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - together with countless insights from venerable film...
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Cinema Is Everywhere
2016
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
8/1
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from...
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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2016
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
0/0
A documentary which explores the lives and tragic deaths of Marceline Orbes and Francis "Slivers" Oakley, the suicidal clowns who inspired Charlie Cha...
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Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
2018
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
0/0
In 2017 Tyneside Cinema turned 80.
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The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles
7.2/37
A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius, bot...
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The Eyes of Orson Welles
2019
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
0/0
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. M...
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50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
2020
40 Days to Learn Film
0/0
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...
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40 Days to Learn Film
2005
Cinema Iran
5.5/2
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
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Cinema Iran
2021
The Story of Looking
5.6/5
As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives....
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The Story of Looking
2021
Who Is Bill Rebane?
5.5/2
A feature-length documentary on the life and work of Wisconsin grindhouse cinema auteur Bill Rebane, featuring historians, critics, and filmmakers, pl...
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Who Is Bill Rebane?
1994
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
6/4
Nancy Franklin was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see...
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I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
2021
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
0/0
A first encounter. At the Venice Film Festival. A second encounter. Again the Venice Film Festival. A crescendo of curiosity, wish to know and discove...
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The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
2021
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
5.5/6
Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Mark Cousins gives an intimate glimpse in...
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
The Story of Film: A New Generation
6.9/11
The final chapter of his exceptional 15-part documentary exploring the history of cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Mark Cousins builds a bridge...
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The Story of Film: A New Generation
2018
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
0/0
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a mak...
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2009
The First Movie
7.3/7
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 a...
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The First Movie
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
6.8/5
Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Al...
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2022
The March on Rome
6.4/4
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire wor...
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The March on Rome
2023
The Complete Story of Film
8/1
At 18 hours and 43 minutes long, 'The Complete Story of Film' collects two epic documentaries by Mark Cousins into a stunningly expansive global journ...
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The Complete Story of Film
2023
Cannes Uncut
5.8/4
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over ei...
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