'The Story Of Film: A New Generation' Exclusive: Watch The First Clip & Check Out The Poster To Mark Cousins New Cannes Film

Mark Cousins is kind of a film historian who makes amazing, long, expansive docs about cinema. He is best known for his 15-hour documentary from 2011, “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” and now he’s made a follow-up to it (while it hasn’t been widely seen in the U.S. yet, 2020’s “Women Make Film” is a doc is divided into 40 chapters over 14 hours and features the work of 183 female directors and surely is going to be seen as a major milestone in film history eventually), titled “The Story of Film: A New Generation.”

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With the upcoming premiere of Mark Cousin’s highly anticipated ‘Story of Film’ follow-up, ‘A New Generation,’ at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the documentary. We also have a first look at the beautiful new poster for the film.

You might think the 15-hour documentary, ‘An Odyssey,’ would be able to sum up all of Cousins’ thoughts regarding the medium of film. However, ‘A New Generation,’ picks up where his previous film left off and looks at the most recent decade in film, including the tumultuous pandemic-era that crippled the industry over the past year-plus. And considering the filmmaker is only covering a decade of film, ‘A New Generation’ isn’t a marathon feature, as Cousins has been wont to make. Instead, the new documentary clocks in at a cool 2-hours-and-40-minutes.

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“The Story of Film: A New Generation” will premiere as the special, pre-opening night screening at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on July 6. You can watch the exclusive clip and see the new poster below.

Synopsis:

A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world cinema from 2010 to 2021, using a surprising range of works — including Joker, Frozen and Cemetery of Splendour — as launchpads to explore recurring themes and emerging motifs, from the evolution of film language, to technology’s role in moviemaking today, to shifting identities in 21st-century world cinema. Touching on everything from Parasite and The Farewell to Black Panther and Lovers Rock, Cousins seeks out films, filmmakers and communities under-represented in traditional film histories, with a particular emphasis on Asian and Middle Eastern works, as well as boundary-pushing documentaries and films that see gender in new ways. And as the recent pandemic recedes, Cousins ponders what comes next in the streaming age: how have we changed as cinephiles, and how moviegoing will continue to transform in the digital century, to our collective joy and wonder.

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