The Story of Film: An Odyssey New Directors, New Form (Season 1, Episode 8)
TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

New Directors, New Form (Season 1, Episode 8)

TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1965-1969 when New Wave Cinema swept the world and gave rise to a whole new generation of filmmakers. It first looks at the work of director Roman Polanski before turning to Czech ...See moreThe Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1965-1969 when New Wave Cinema swept the world and gave rise to a whole new generation of filmmakers. It first looks at the work of director Roman Polanski before turning to Czech filmmakers Jiri Trnka, Milos Forman, and Vera Chytilova, It then looks at directors in Hungary (Miklos Jancso), the Soviet Union (Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov), Japan (Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura), India (Ritwik Ghatak), Brazil (Glauber Rocha), Iran (Forugh Farrokhzad), and Senegal (Ousmane Sembene). It also examines director in England including Karel Reisz, Ken Loach, and Richard Lester. Finally it turns to America and a growing movement of innovative film-makers in the late 60s including Robert Drew, John Cassavetes, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Warhol, Haskell Wexler, Dennis Hopper, and Stanley Kubrick. Written by Shatterdaymorn See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Mark Cousins Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	The First Movie (2009)
Aleksandr Sokurov Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Russian Ark (2002)
Nagisa Ôshima Self - Interviewee (archive footage) Self - Interviewee (archive footage) See fewer	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Mani Kaul Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Duvidha (1973)
Samira Makhmalbaf Self Self See fewer	At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
Ken Loach Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Haskell Wexler Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Medium Cool (1969)
Juan Diego Botto Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) See fewer	La Celestina (1996)