{"id":2075,"date":"2021-07-06T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T18:08:17","slug":"the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Film: A New Generation review \u2013 invigorating study of 21st century cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critic and film-maker Mark Cousins offers a new instalment in his monumental Story of Film series, examining what digital technology has brought to the table<\/p>\n<p>Critic and documentary film-maker Mark Cousins has returned to Cannes with another episode of his amazingly ambitious cinephile history The Story of Film, an illuminated patchwork clip-quilt, accompanied by his inimitable incantation-voiceover. It\u2019s another example of his unique approach: Cousins is subjective almost to the point of free-associating or even sleep-talking (maybe appropriate for the dream state of the movies) but also colossally well-informed, bracingly internationalist and genuinely educational. I have never yet watched a Cousins film without learning something and being a bit sheepish about what I didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Cousins\u2019s style takes some getting used to \u2013 almost like a hyper-innocent form of criticism, wide-eyed with wonder at cinema\u2019s brave new world, a Miranda of the movies. Occasionally Cousins\u2019s commentary verges on the superfluous, simply describing what is on screen, although there is almost always a shrewd insight there: he has a great section on a creepy travelling shot in David Robert Mitchell\u2019s psychological horror It Follows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/jul\/06\/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5dc2835a371f6d1f86df028c52a465201e35c26c\/233_161_1528_917\/master\/1528.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=efd0197d6cbf212eda92f4931d425989\" title=\"The Story of Film: A New Generation review \u2013 invigorating study of 21st century cinema\" \/>Critic and film-maker Mark Cousins offers a new instalment in his monumental Story of Film series, examining what digital technology has brought to the table<br \/>\nCritic and documentary film-maker Mark Cousins has returned to Cannes with another episode of his amazingly ambitious cinephile history The Story of Film, an illuminated patchwork clip-quilt, accompanied by his inimitable incantation-voiceover. It\u2019s another example of his unique approach: Cousins is subjective almost to the point of free-associating or even sleep-talking (maybe appropriate for the dream state of the movies) but also colossally well-informed, bracingly internationalist and genuinely educational. I have never yet watched a Cousins film without learning something and being a bit sheepish about what I didn\u2019t know.<br \/>\nThat said, Cousins\u2019s style takes some getting used to \u2013 almost like a hyper-innocent form of criticism, wide-eyed with wonder at cinema\u2019s brave new world, a Miranda of the movies. Occasionally Cousins\u2019s commentary verges on the superfluous, simply describing what is on screen, although there is almost always a shrewd insight there: he has a great section on a creepy travelling shot in David Robert Mitchell\u2019s psychological horror It Follows. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critic and film-maker Mark Cousins offers a new instalment in his monumental Story of Film series, examining what digital technology has brought to the table Critic and documentary film-maker Mark Cousins has returned to Cannes with another episode of his amazingly ambitious cinephile history The Story of Film, an illuminated patchwork clip-quilt, accompanied by his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story of Film: A New Generation review \u2013 invigorating study of 21st century cinema<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}