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Mark Cousins – Marcia su Roma AKA The March on Rome (2022)

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Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
In one way, this film is a gift to make. It’s about an important historic event that was filmed. And at the centre of that event is a charismatic man who, again, was widely filmed. So there’s plenty of great archive footage of the March on Rome and Benito Mussolini. But it is tainted footage. It was shot by the fascist information machine to sell fascism. So our film must detain it. In many of my films I full back the curtain on cinema to show the audience the fascinating ways in which it makes emotion and excitement. I will do the same here. People will see footage of key events of the 20th century, and hear how it was manipulated. Relevant revelations in our modern era of fake news and new aggressors. Our film will deepen and widen its appeal by putting at its centre a young Italian woman, Anna. Through her eyes we see and hear what the rise of fascism felt like – its appeal, excitement and eventual abjection. They young woman is played by the great actor Alba Rohrwacher with defiance at first, and then coming realisation. We will shoot innovatively, on a virtual set in Cinecittà. To make the film more cinematic still, I have filmed 580 “tableaux” shots of Rome in its many guised – monumental, religious, troubled, architectural. And in addition to these I will use telling clips from the history of Italian cinema, movies by Ettore Scola, Augusto Tretti, Elvira Notari, Bernardo Bertolucci and others. These films further flesh out the film’s portrait of fascism in Italy, its turmoils and escapes. Together these sequences will show us Rome in visually bold ways and will add layers to our story.

It’s quite a remarkable story of a theft of power in the Eternal City, an event which snowballed into a sequence of tragedies in Europe and further afield. A story whose toxic masculinity and manipulation of imagery have many resonances today. We watch in fascination and some dread. To give the story more scale and power, I am structuring it in five acts, like an opera. The story has the emotions of a great opera, and the expressivity. And so, we hope, has our film.

Marcia su Roma.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 37 min
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https://nitro.download/view/AC257F0C35A4303/Marcia_su_Roma.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/6F702645BF9E916/Marcia_su_Roma.pt-BR.srt

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Portuguese

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Mark Cousins – The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Visionary cinema historian Mark Cousins (THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY) charts the unknown territory of the imagination of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Orson Welles—tantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmaker’s rich inner life—Cousins sheds new light on the experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that fueled his creativity and inspired his masterpieces. Playful, profound, and as daringly iconoclastic as its subject, THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES is a one-of-a-kind work of visual archaeology, a fresh way of looking at a cinematic giant whose singular worldview—fiercely humanist, defiantly antiauthoritarian—resonates now more urgently than ever.

	
The.Eyes.of.Orson.Welles.Mark.Cousins.2018.1080p.Crit.Web-DL.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 55 min
Size: 	3.62 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/AD10716130274CE/The.Eyes.of.Orson.Welles.Mark.Cousins.2018.1080p.Crit.Web-DL.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English CC

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Mark Cousins – My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022)

admin — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:02:00 +0000

A fictional Alfred Hitchcock narrates an explanation of some of the lesser known cinematic techniques he used in his movies, richly illustrated with clips from his entire 50-year career.

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022) 1080p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 59 min
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https://nitro.download/view/1E3CEE32224AFA6/My_Name_Is_Alfred_Hitchcock_(2022)_1080p.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Mark Cousins – Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)

admin — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 07:08:00 +0000

A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.

22.9GB | 14h 00m | 1024×576 | mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Mark Cousins – The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 06:30:00 +0000

The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey through the history of world cinema that is a treat for movie lovers around the globe. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this bold 15-part love letter to the movies begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and concludes with the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey heralds a unique approach to the evolution of film art by focusing on the artistic vision and innovations of filmmaking pioneers. Cousins’ distinctive approach also yields a personal and idiosyncratic rewriting of film history.

Filmed at key locations in film history on every continent, from Thomas Edison’s New Jersey laboratory, to Hitchcock’s London; from post-war Rome to the thriving industry of modern day Mumbai–this landmark documentary is filled with glorious clips from some of the greatest movies ever made and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.

Part 1
This opening of The Story of Film: An Odyssey shows the birth of a great new art form, the movies. Filmed in the very buildings where the first movies were made, it shows that ideas and passion have always driven film, more than money and marketing. We hear the story of the very first movie stars, close-ups and special effects and then we travel to Hollywood to see how it became a myth. The story is full of surprises, such as the fact that the greatest, and best, paid writers in these early years were women. And then there’s the glamour: the building of the great movie cathedrals.

Part 2
This is the fascinating story of the movies in the roaring 20s. We see how Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry and how star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton emerged. But the gloss and fantasy was challenged by movie makers like Robert Flaherty, Eric Von Stroheim and Carl Theodor Dreyer, who wanted films to be more serious and mature. Filmed in Hollywood, Denmark and Moscow, this part looks at the battle over the soul of cinema and some of the greatest movies ever made.

Part 3
The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. In this part, we visit Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to discover the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium. German Expressionism, Soviet montage, French impressionism and surrealism were passionate new film movements, but less well known are the glories of Chinese and Japanese films and the moving story of one of the great, now forgotten, movie stars: Ruan Lingyu.

Part 4
In part 4, we see how the coming of sound in the 1930s upended everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures,horror films, westerns and musicals, and discover a master of most of them: Howard Hawks. Far away from Hollywood, in England Alfred Hitchcock hits his stride and French directors become masters of mood. And we discover that three of the great films of 1939 – The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Nintochka – have something in common.

Part 5
This part of The Story of Film shows how the trauma of war made cinema more daring. The story starts in Italy, and then we go to Hollywood, discover Orson Welles and chart the darkening of American film and the drama of the McCarthy era. Screenwriters Paul Schrader and Robert Towne discuss theses years. The director of Singin’ in the Rain, Stanley Donen, talks exclusively about his career, and we discover that British films like The Third Man best sum up these extraordinary years.

Part 6
This part explores the story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the 50s. We discover James Dean, On the Waterfront and the glossy weepies of the time, but also travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, Britain and Japan to find that movies there were also full of rage and passion. Features exclusive interviews with the people who worked with Satyajit Ray, with legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa–who starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, and the first great African director, Youssef Chahine.

Part 7
This is the explosive story of film in the late 50s and 60s. The great movie star Claudia Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini. In Denmark, Lars Von Trier describes his admiration for Ingmar Bergman, and Bernardo Bertolucci remembers his work with Pier Paolo Pasolini. We discover how French filmmakers planted a bomb under the movies and see how the new wave it caused swept across Europe.

Part 8
This is the story of the dazzling 1960s in cinema around the world. In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influenced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: A Space Odyssey begin a new era in America cinema. And as the new wave in cinema sweeps around the world, we discover the films of Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Nagisa Oshima. Black African cinema is born and we talk exclusively to the Indian master director Mani Kaul.

Part 9
This is the remarkable story of the maturing of American cinema of the late 60s and 70s. Buck Henry, who wrote The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader in New York reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver. Writer Robert Towne explores the dark ideas in Chinatown, and director Charles Burnett talks about the birth of Black American cinema.

Part 10
This is the story of the movies that tried to change the world in the 70s. We start in Germany with Wim Wenders, head to Britain in the 70s and talk exclusively to Ken Loach, travel to Italy, see the birth of new Australian cinema, and then arrive in Japan, which was making the most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder questions about film were being asked in Africa and South America, and the story ends with John Lennon’s favorite film, the extraordinary, psychedelic The Holy Mountain.

Part 11
Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Part 11 explains how, and then travels to India where the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kickstarted the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix.

Part 12
With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s were the years of protest in the movies. This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing we discover the blossoming of Chinese cinema before the Tian’anmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, and in Poland the master director Krzysztof Kieslowski emerges.

Part 13
Few saw it coming, but cinema around the world in the 90s entered a golden age. The story starts in Iran, where we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then we meet Shinya Tsukamoto, who laid the ground for the bold new Japanese horror cinema. From Tokyo, the story moves to Paris where one of the world’s greatest directors, Claire Denis, talks exclusively about her work. The story ends in Mexico with the blossoming of its new films.

Part 14
This is the story of the brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English-speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantino’s dialogue and the edge of the Coen brothers. The writer of Starship Troopers and Robocop talks exclusively about their irony. In Australia, Baz Luhrmann talks about Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge and we plunge into the digital world to see how it changed the movies forever.

Part 15
In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore, followed by David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive becoming one of the most complex dream films ever made and Inception turning film into a game. In Moscow, master director Alexander Sokurov talks exclusively about his innovative films and then there’s a surprise: The Story of Film goes beyond the present, to look at film in the future.

13.7GB | 15h 48m | 853×480 | mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Mark Cousins – A Story of Children and Film (2013)

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 09:10:00 +0000

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The world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood ? its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness ? as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries.It includes classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, also dozens of masterpieces (many directed by women) that are almost unknown.It combines the child?s eye view of Mark Cousins? acclaimed film The First Movie, with the revelations and bold movie history of his 15 hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

1.59GB | 1 h 41 min | 560×416 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B4A28027484C8D9/A.Story.of.Children.and.Film.2013.DVDrip.x264.AC3-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Dutch,French

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Mark Cousins – Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)

admin — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:26:53 +0000

This hypnotic documentary by cinephile par excellence Mark Cousins takes a brave – but increasingly rewarding – abstract angle by seeking through aesthetic rather than conventional exposition to capture the strange, sensory ethos of the Atomic age (a period spanning approximately 1940-60 but having a far-reaching legacy up to the present day). Using Mogwai’s ethereal electronic soundtrack as his conduit, Cousins takes us through the history of the Atomic period through sound and image alone (there is no overt narration) – even trying ambitiously to suggest that splitting the atom and creating atomic weapons were not in themselves immediately malign developments but almost the end-game of a form of evolution, and symbol of mankind’s mastery over the properties of his planet. Hence Cousins finds in the famous, awe-inspiring images of atomic mushroom clouds a correlation with more common sights of proliferation in nature (a bud that grows, a flower that blooms, sperm that fertilises an egg).

It’s the politicisation and militarisation of this scientific development that Cousins laments: his sub-Eisenstein editing hammering home the human and environmental cost of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Being such an impassioned filmmaker, there is the sense that Cousins has to work hard to rein in his clear authorial subjectivity and a tendency to over-determine the moral of his subject matter. That minor quibble aside, he has crafted a truly original and memorable tone poem to the haunting strangeness of our atomic times.

Mark Cousins is one of Britain’s most beloved and passionate cinephiles, and Atomic is further proof of his increasing proficiency and skill as a documentary filmmaker. It’s an ambitious, distinctive work that captures the sheer strangeness of the Atomic Age, a feast for the mind and the senses.

https://nitro.download/view/A19879FD6F7A1A2/Atomic.Living.in.Dread.and.Promise.576p.HDTV.x264.AAC.MVGroup.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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