How Mark Cousins Created His Epic Lockdown Doc on the Most Boundary-Pushing Films of the Last Decade
Will Thorne Staff WriterA decade after producing his epic 15-hour series “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” Mark Cousins has created another cinematic survey of Homeric proportions.In ”The Story of Film: A New Generation,” whose international distribution is handled by Dogwoof Sales, the writer and filmmaker applies a wide lens to the last 10 years of cinema, asking where filmmakers have pushed the language of storytelling, and where they have blown it up entirely.Using snippets from Hollywood and Bollywood bangers like “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “PK,” from VR masterpieces like “The Deserted,” and from urgent docs like Syria’s “For Sama,” Cousins fashions a compelling, ultimately optimistic collage on where cinema has been, and