Cinema Today and the Future

Episode aired Dec 10, 2011
1h 2m

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The Story of Film looks at film in the 2000's and considers innovations that will drive film forward to the future. It looks at the work of documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore, Nicolas... Read allThe Story of Film looks at film in the 2000's and considers innovations that will drive film forward to the future. It looks at the work of documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore, Nicolas Philibert, Douglas Gordon, and Philippe Parreno. It also looks at filmmakers inspired by ... Read allThe Story of Film looks at film in the 2000's and considers innovations that will drive film forward to the future. It looks at the work of documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore, Nicolas Philibert, Douglas Gordon, and Philippe Parreno. It also looks at filmmakers inspired by documentaries and realism including Paul Greengrass and Andrew Dominik,. It also looks at ... Read all

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Mark Cousins

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Roy Andersson

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Aleksandr Sokurov

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Juan Diego Botto

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Mark Cousins - Presenter: We know something will go wrong, but what? What'll happen next? That's the question the film makers asked, and will always ask.

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The Future of Cinema

The final segment of this series focuses on... the gorilla. Cousins uses the gorilla as a metaphor for innovation and unexpected twists and turns. Do movies today have a gorilla?

Interestingly, after 9/11, reality film was able to outdo fantasy in many respects. Just look at "Fahrenheit 9/11". Indeed, I do think documentary film has really come into its own since 2001. (In some ways it is replacing investigative journalism.)

We have edgy Korean film, including "Oldboy" (which is being redone by Spike Lee as I type this). And we have Cousins comparing "Wizard of Oz" with "Mulholland Drive", which is wild.

Of course, we have computer technology pushing the limits of the new digital medium. "Inception" would not have been possible in the 1980s, and "Avatar" probably could not have been done in the 1990s...