Despite the many curious similarities between Susan Hayward and Lena Horne-both were born in Brooklyn on exactly the same day, for example-one detail set their careers on very different paths. This doc examines their parallel lives.
Short video essay by critic/filmmaker Mark Cousins about the influence of Pulp Fiction. He discusses the influence of the film and his personal view on it, wich isn't without criticism. Includes some behind the scenes footage and comments from Quentin Tarantino on how he views the movie and his...
Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) reflects on questions concerning copyright and the extent to which a film can conform to the associations of the person watching it. Can two people ever really see the same film?
A documentary which explores the lives and tragic deaths of Marceline Orbes and Francis "Slivers" Oakley, the suicidal clowns who inspired Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Film maker Mark Cousins visited northern Iraq in the summer of 2008. This is a snapshot of what he found there. An imaginative, soulful reflection of a beautiful complicated place.
To celebrate the online release of the British Council's Film Collection - an archive of 120 short documentaries made throughout the 1940s to showcase Britain to the rest of the world - we invited three contemporary UK filmmakers to respond to the Collection. John Akomfrah, Penny Woolcock and Mark...
