Mark Cousins
Known for: Directing
Born: May 3, 1965
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Mark Cousins is an Irish documentary filmmaker, film critic and programmer. A prolific producer and director, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey" (2011). Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013, as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and University of Stirling in 2014. He is now a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival. He is a Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019, as well as Member of the Official Competition jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, Cousins joined the jury of the BFI London Film Festival.
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Filmography
56 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
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The Hearth
2024
7.5
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
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Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
2023
8.0
The Complete Story of Film
2023
6.7
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
5.4
Cannes Uncut
2023
6.5
The March on Rome
2022
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The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
2022
7.4
The Story of Film: A New Generation
2021
5.5
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
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The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
2021
5.6
The Story of Looking
2021
5.7
Who Is Bill Rebane?
2021NR
Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper
2021
7.0
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
5.0
40 Days to Learn Film
2020
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Alexander's Film
2020NR
You With Your Fresh Thoughts
2019
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50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
2019
6.9
The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018
4.0
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
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The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018NR
Storm in My Heart
2018
6.7
Stockholm, My Love
20168.0
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2016
6.6
I Am Belfast
20166.0
Eisenstein on Lawrence
2016NR
Bigger Than The Shining
2016
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Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
20162.0
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
2015
6.7
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
2015
7.5
6 Desires
2014
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The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014NR
The Place
2014
5.6
Life May Be
2014NR
But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
2014
5.5
Apollo: First War Cinema
2013
5.7
Here Be Dragons
2013
7.1
A Story of Children and Film
20136.2
What Is This Film Called Love?
2012
4.2
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
20119.0
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
7.3
The First Movie
2009NR
First Impressions
2008
8.7
The New Ten Commandments
20085.5
Cinema Iran
2005
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On the Road with Kiarostami
2005
9.0
Faith
2005NR
The Atomists
2004NR
Pulp Fact
1997
6.0
Scene by Scene
1997NR
I Remember IKWIG
1996NR
Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way
1996
6.5
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994
8.0
Another Journey By Train
1993NR
Gulf War: Scottish Eye
1990NR
Dear Mr Gorbachev
1990NR
Viewpoint '90
1990
6.0
Moviedrome
1988NR
Joie de Vivre. Notes, thoughts, words, reflections, faces, and visions concerning Bernardo Bertolucci and the cinephilia of the 20th century that no longer exists
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The Story of Documentary Film
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