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The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more

The film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles

The Guardian - UK

European Film Awards 2026: 'Sentimental Value' sweeps the board

Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' has pulled off a clean sweep, winning a total of six awards, including Best European Film, Best Director and both acting awards. Elsewhere, Oliver Laxe's Sirat picked up five awards during a politically charged evening in Berlin.

Euronews

Moviedrome: the cult BBC film strand that changed how we watched movies

FLASHBACKS: Made to feel like recommendations shared with you by a mate down the pub, ‘Moviedrome’ – which broadcast cinema’s wildest, strangest films – left late-night BBC Two audiences spellbound on Sunday nights from 1988 to 2000. As it inspires a season of screenings at London’s BFI, Alex Deller reminisces…

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Hitchcock's legacy explored in new doc

Cousins' documentary highlights how Hitchcock used visual storytelling to manipulate and engage audiences

Salon

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – vivid portrait of 20th-century artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Mark Cousins’s poetic documentary about the late St Ives-based Scottish artist is among his finest films

The Guardian - UK

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter

The work of the late Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is brought to life by this idiosyncratically persuasive Mark Cousins film

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

From uplifting drama to gonzo body-horror and an intensely personal documentary, here are our favourite picks

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TV tonight: Mark Zuckerberg’s former colleagues dish the dirt

The story behind the FaceMash creator comes to light in an extensive documentary. Plus, creature comforts in a Merseyside safari park. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Sound of Metal to Tremors: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A tour de force starring Riz Ahmed as a rock drummer who suddenly goes deaf, and the original and best of the groundshaking horror

The Guardian - UK

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock review – Mark Cousins puts words in Hitch’s mouth

On one level a revealing study of Hitchcock’s work, this documentary goes a step too far by imagining the director’s inner thoughts, as voiced by impressionist Alistair McGowan

The Guardian - UK

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock review – Mark Cousins’ cheeky and insightful study

In this critically agile film, Hitchcock supposedly narrates from beyond the grave, using movie clips to reveal techniques and meanings in his work

The Guardian - UK

Mark Cousins on Hitchcock, Scotland and the rise of the far-right

FILMMAKER Mark Cousins believes Scotland’s screen industry is in a healthy place, having moved from a “C minus” to a “B plus” over the…

The National (Scotland)

‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan

Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79

The Guardian - UK

Classic movie campaign launched to save Edinburgh cinema and film festival

CLASSIC movie images were projected on to public buildings in Edinburgh last night as part of a campaign to save the city’s Filmhouse cinema and…

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September design news: Francis Bacon and fry-up chic

Green graduates set to save the future, turning scraps into kitchen knives and new art from director Mark Cousins

Salon

The most recent innovative films

Mark Cousins speaks to Salon about the most exciting movies that've pushed boundaries and broken rules this decade

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ revels in new cinema

A follow-up to his 15-hour-long 2011 TV miniseries, “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” an offshoot of his 2004 book “The Story of Film,” “The Story of Film: A New Generation” introduces viewers to a new wave of auteur filmmakers, or at least those who award-winning writer-director-narrator Mark Cousins dubs…

The Guardian - UK

The March on Rome review – Mark Cousins dissects Mussolini and the grisly founding myth of fascism

In his trademark subjective style Cousins uses archive and contemporary footage to show the dictator’s dishonesty and brutality

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‘She disappears or goes blank like Garbo’: the enigma of Tilda Swinton

The British actor’s new films show the full spectrum of her capabilities as the most unconventional of Hollywood A-listers

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Political, provocative and preposterous: why Cannes is a ‘cathedral of cinema’

The French cultural institution, which turns 75 this year, has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it so essential

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