Episode #1.7 (15 Oct. 2011)

Director:

Mark Cousins

Writer:

Mark Cousins

Stars:

Mark Cousins, Lars von Trier, Stig Björkman

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Mark Cousins	...	Himself - Presenter
Lars von Trier	...	Himself - Interviewee
Stig Björkman	...	Himself - Interviewee
Paul Schrader	...	Himself - Interviewee
Mani Kaul	...	Himself - Interviewee
Bill Forsyth	...	Himself - Interviewee
Claudia Cardinale	...	Herself - Interviewee
François Truffaut	...	Himself (archive footage)
Baz Luhrmann	...	Himself - Interviewee
Pier Paolo Pasolini	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bernardo Bertolucci	...	Himself - Interviewee
Sergio Leone	...	Himself (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti	...	Himself (archive footage)

Storyline

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 October 2011 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hopscotch Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Cousins claimed that Psycho was influenced by the 1960 documentary Primary. Yet Hitchcock started shooting Psycho on 11th November 1959 and finished on 1st Fenruary 1960 and the Wisconsin Primary was held on 21st January 1960 - which means that not only was the documentary not finished until after Hitchcock made Psycho, but the events in it didn't even happen until Psycho's final week of shooting!

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Quotes

Himself - Interviewee: I think a lot of film makers think a story is the purpose of a film, and that the characters and the actors really have just got to establish the story and take it to where it's going. And that seems to me to be the complete opposite of what should be happening, because there should be no story. I mean, we spend our lives inventing stories, but the story actually doesn't exist. We exist, and our apprehension of a story is how we explain the kind of meanderings that we take. So, there's no such ...

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Connections

Features Fellini's Casanova (1976)

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