2022 marks the hundred-year anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature. A century on, Hitchcock remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s society? Mark Cousins tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career – his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works – in playful and revealing ways.
screenplay
Mark Cousins
cinematography
Mark Cousins
editing
Mark Cousins
music
Donna McKevitt
sound
Ania Przygoda
narrator
Alistair McGowan
producer
John Archer
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Hopscotch Films
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Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish director and writer. His films – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have garnered awards such as the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Stanley Kubrick Award and the European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling. Cousins has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia, and in America and Europe. Mark’s books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary and The Story of Looking. He has collaborated with Tilda Swinton on innovative film events. His fourteen-hour documentary Women Make Film tries to rethink cinema. His newest films are The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, The Story of Looking and The Story of Film: A New Generation.
2022 My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (doc)
2022 Marcia su Roma (doc)
2021 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (doc)
2021 The Story of Film: A New Generation (doc)
2021 The Story of Looking (doc)
2020 Alexander’s Film (doc)
2020 40 Days to Learn Film (doc)
2019 Storm in My Heart (doc)
2018 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (doc)
2018 Lo sguardo di Orson Welles (doc)
2016 Stockholm, My Love
2016 Bigger than the Shining (doc)
2016 Eisenstein on Lawrence (short)
2015 Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (doc)
2015 I Am Belfast (doc)
2015 Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate (short)
2014 The Place (short)
2014 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (doc)
2014 The Film That Buys the Cinema (doc)
2014 But Then Again, Too Few to Mention (short)
2014 Life May Be (doc)
2013 Here Be Dragons (doc)
2013 A Story of Children and Film (doc)
2012 What Is This Film Called Love? (doc)
2009 The First Movie (doc)
2008 The New Ten Commandments (doc)
1993 Another Journey by Train (doc)
