Name
Mark Cousins
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1965-05-03 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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.
Known For
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A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (...
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Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and...
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The final chapter of his exceptional 15-part documentary exploring the history of cinema, ...
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Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents ...
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A meticulous essay on the presence and representation of children in the history of cinema...
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Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one ca...
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Stockholm My Love is a city symphony, a love letter to Stockholm, the fiction debut of dir...
- 1994 I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewer
- 2021 The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel as Self
- 2021 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas as Self
- 2021 The Story of Film: A New Generation as Narrator
- 2023 My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock as Self (voice)
- 2009 The First Movie as Self – Documentarist
- 2022 The March on Rome as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2013 A Story of Children and Film as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 The Complete Story of Film as Narrator
- 2018 Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk as Self
- 2014 The Film That Buys the Cinema
- 2011 Cinema Is Everywhere as Self
- 2016 Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood as Self
- 2023 Cannes Uncut as Self
- 2016 Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died as Self - Interviewee
- 2018 The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
- 2018 The Eyes of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
- 2019 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film as Himself
- 2020 40 Days to Learn Film as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2005 Cinema Iran as Narrator
- 2021 The Story of Looking as Self
- 2021 Who Is Bill Rebane? as Self
- 2026 Joie de vivre as Self
- 2008 The New Ten Commandments as Self
- 2014 Life May Be as Self
- 2024 A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things as Self
- 2013 Here Be Dragons as Self
- 2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey ( 15 episodes ) as Presenter / Narrator
- 1988 Moviedrome ( 50 episodes )
- 1997 Scene by Scene ( 24 episodes ) as Self - Presenter
- Soon The Story of Documentary Film ( 16 episodes ) as Self – Narrator
