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‘Women Make Film’ Review: Mark Cousins’ 14-Hour Documentary Celebrates the Art and Ingenuity of Women Filmmakers

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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Women Make Film.” The title of Irish film savant Mark Cousins’ sprawling 14-hour follow-up to “The Story of Film” serves both as a statement of fact and, if punctuated slightly differently, a call to action: “Women, Make Film!”Where the earlier documentary was a monumental survey of the medium, attempting to cram its entire history into a single project, Cousins allows this latest labor of love to be more discursive and idiosyncratic — “a new road movie through cinema,” he calls it — stitched together with footage shot through the windshields of cars on nearly every continent.

He and editor Timo Langer have assembled montage upon montage of magic moments, the vast majority plucked from films even I was.

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