TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Color

Credits:

Mark Cousins,Jean-Michel Frodon,Stanley Donen,Kyoko Kagawa,Norman Lloyd

Description:

1,000 Miracles given to us by the film -. This documentary, which took six years to make and was filmed on five continents, explores the stories hidden in the history of cinema with approximately 1,000 films. The documentary features interviews with Abbas Kiarostami and Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as famous directors and actors such as Paul Schrader, Stanley Donen, Lars von Trier, Baz Luhrmann, Yuen Woo-Ping, Amitabh Bachchan, Kyoko Kagawa, and others, and rare archival footage. The program will take you on a spectacular journey through 120 years of film history, featuring interviews and rare archival footage. Disc 1] "The Birth of Cinema 64min/Director: Mark Cousins/Starring: Jean-Michel Frodon A new art form, cinema, was born in the 1890s. This program introduces the first studio built by Thomas Edison, the early works of the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès, the "father of special effects," the studios that sprang up in Hollywood, the major motion pictures shot by Cecil B. DeMille, the appearance of talkies, the first movie stars and female directors, and other untold stories. The first movie stars, female directors, and other untold stories. Disc (2)] "The Achievement of American Cinema, and Rebellion" 64 minutes / Director: Mark Cousins / Cast: Stanley Donen, Lars von Trier, Norman Lloyd From the late 1910s to the 1920s, Hollywood grew into a factory that fascinated the world." Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd, the "three great masters of the comedy film," were active, and many stars were born. However, directors such as Robert Flaherty and Erich von Stroheim rebelled against the glittering entertainment. Disc (3)] "Masters Around the World 65 min / Director: Mark Cousins / Cast: Kyoko Kagawa, Alexandre Dovzhenko, Naum Klayman, Donald Richey From the late 1920s to the early 1930s, Ernst Lubitsch revolutionized comedy, and "rebels" such as the French impressionist Jean Cocteau, the German expressionist Fritz Lang, and the Soviet Union's Sergei Eisenstein produced a succession of masterpieces. Kyoko Kagawa, who appeared in many of their films, talks about the achievements of Japanese filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. Disc (4)] "The Appearance of Sound 64min / Director:Mark Cousins / Cast:Norman Lloyd The 1930s. With the arrival of the talkie era and the establishment of such staple entertainment film genres as horror, gangster movies, westerns, comedies, and animation, two masters, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, were active, and France produced a succession of films that transcended genre boundaries. Then, in 1939, three great films with women as protagonists appeared. Disc (5)] "Scars of War, New Trends in Cinema 64min/Director: Mark Cousins/Stanley Donen 1939-1952. The scars of war gave birth to neo-realism in Italy, many film noirs were made in Hollywood, and the Red Hunt cast a dark shadow over the country. Meanwhile, John Ford changed film history with his superior technique, and the brilliant Orson Welles, who was greatly influenced by him, appeared on the scene. In addition, Stanley Donen talks about his own career.