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Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins

Director · Born 1965-05-03 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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Biography

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.

Directed

  1. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) — Director
  2. The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) — Director
  3. A Story of Children and Film (2013) — Director
  4. I Am Belfast (2016) — Director
  5. Stockholm, My Love (2016) — Director
  6. The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021) — Director
  7. Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015) — Director
  8. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2023) — Director
  9. The First Movie (2009) — Director
  10. The March on Rome (2022) — Director
  11. 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011) — Director
  12. Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2020) — Director
  13. The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021) — Director
  14. 6 Desires (2014) — Director
  15. I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited (1994) — Director
  16. The Story of Looking (2021) — Director
  17. What Is This Film Called Love? (2012) — Director
  18. Life May Be (2014) — Director
  19. Here Be Dragons (2013) — Director
  20. The New Ten Commandments (2008) — Director
  21. Scene by Scene (1997) — Director
  22. Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate (2015) — Director
  23. Cinema Iran (2005) — Director
  24. The Complete Story of Film (2023) — Director
  25. Another Journey By Train (1993) — Director
  26. Eisenstein on Lawrence (2016) — Director
  27. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024) — Director
  28. 40 Days to Learn Film (2020) — Director
  29. Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles (2023) — Director
  30. Gulf War: Scottish Eye (1990) — Director
  31. I Remember IKWIG (1996) — Director
  32. Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way (1996) — Director
  33. On the Road with Kiarostami (2005) — Director
  34. The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014) — Director
  35. You With Your Fresh Thoughts (2019) — Director
  36. First Impressions (2008) — Director
  37. But Then Again, Too Few to Mention (2014) — Director
  38. The Place (2014) — Director
  39. Bigger Than The Shining (2016) — Director
  40. Pulp Fact (1997) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) — Presenter / Narrator
  2. The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) — Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
  3. A Story of Children and Film (2013) — Himself - Narrator (voice)
  4. The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021) — Narrator
  5. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2023) — Self (voice)
  6. The First Movie (2009) — Self – Documentarist
  7. The March on Rome (2022) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  8. I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited (1994) — Self - Interviewer
  9. The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021) — Self
  10. Cannes Uncut (2023) — Self
  11. The Story of Looking (2021) — Self
  12. Life May Be (2014) — Self
  13. Who Is Bill Rebane? (2021) — Self
  14. The New Ten Commandments (2008) — Self
  15. Here Be Dragons (2013) — Self
  16. Scene by Scene (1997) — Self - Presenter
  17. Cinema Is Everywhere (2011) — Self
  18. Cinema Iran (2005) — Narrator
  19. The Complete Story of Film (2023) — Narrator
  20. Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018) — Self
  21. Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood (2016) — Self
  22. 40 Days to Learn Film (2020) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  23. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024) — Self
  24. Moviedrome (1988)
  25. The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel (2021) — Self
  26. The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
  27. Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died (2016) — Self - Interviewee
  28. The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema (2018)
  29. 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film (2019) — Himself
  30. Joie de Vivre — Self