The Story of Film: An Odyssey Sex & Melodrama (Season 1, Episode 6)
TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Sex & Melodrama (Season 1, Episode 6)

TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the work of directors in Egypt (Youssef Chahine), ...See moreThe Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the work of directors in Egypt (Youssef Chahine), India (Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray), China (Xie Jin), Japan (Akira Kurosawa), Brazil (Nelson Pereira dos Santos), and Mexico (Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel). In the United States, films like All That Heaven Allows and Johnny Guitar examine repressed sexuality. It also looks at the work of Kenneth Anger, Delbert Mann, Elia Kazan, and Nicholas Ray. It then turns to four classic films by four masters of American cinema Orson Welles's Touch of Evil, John Ford's The Searchers, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo. Finally, it goes to Britain to look at the work of directors David Leen and Lindsay Anderson. Written by Shatterdaymorn See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Mark Cousins Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	The First Movie (2009)
Youssef Chahine Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Soumendu Roy Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Pather Panchali (1955)
Sharmila Tagore Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Gulmohar (I) (2023)
Jin Xie Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Hibiscus Town (1987)
Kyôko Kagawa Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	High and Low (1963)
Donald Richie Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Five Filosophical Fables (1970)
François Truffaut Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Day for Night (1973)
Judy Balaban Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
David Lean Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Juan Diego Botto Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) See fewer	La Celestina (1996)