Five
Indian
movies,
all
made
in
Mumbai
but
disparate
in
spirit
and
substance,
function
in
Belfast-born,
Edinburgh-based mostly
filmmaker
and
critic
Mark
Cousins’ stimulating
160-minute
documentary,

The
Tale
of
Film:
A
New
Generation.

Made
through
the
pandemic
and
studded
with
unforgettable
motion picture
moments,
the
documentary
had
its
entire world
premiere
on
the
opening
day
of
the
74th
Cannes
Movie
Competition
as
if
to
inform
the
globe
that
cinema
is,
and
will
often
be,
alive,
no
issue
what
adversity
it
faces.

The
Story
of
Movie:
A
New
Technology
,
a
portion
of
the
Cannes
Classics
part,
opens
with
a
shot
of
the
new
cinematheque
in
Madrid

a
image
of
hope
and
renewal
for
diehard
lovers
of
a
medium
that
is
almost nothing
if
not
dynamic.


A
New
Era
,
a
stick to-up
to
Cousins’
15-hour
magnum
opus

The
Story
of
Movie:
An
Odyssey

(2011),
tracks
the
artistic
innovations,
technological
progress
and
new
techniques
of
looking at
in
an
picture-intensive,
notice-deficient
electronic
age.
Aside from
masking
the
past
ten years
of
American
and
European
cinema,
it
focuses
thoroughly
on
Asian
and
Arab
movies.
It
also
touches
upon
the
pandemic,
too,
and
ruminates
on
its
repercussions:
lockdowns,
facial area
masks
and
social
distancing.

The
riveting,
believed-provoking
overview
of
“the
new
millennium
of
videos” cites
Anurag
Kashyap’s
5-hour

Gangs
of
Wasseypur
,
Rajkumar
Hirani’s

PK
,
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali’s

Goliyon
ki
Rasleela
Ram-Leela
,
Anand
Gandhi’s

Ship
of
Theseus

and
Anand
Patwardhan’s
fantastic
documentary

Motive

among the
the
most
crucial
movies
of
the
recent
era.

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Act
Amendments


A
New
Technology

is
created,
photographed
and
narrated
by
Cousins.
It
addresses
a
dizzying
array
of
movies
and
probes
the
evolution
of
the
important
movie
genres,
the
extensions
of
movie
language,
the
centrality
of
faces
in
cinema,
the
explosion
of
streaming
platforms
and
interaction
equipment,
and
the
introduction
of
effectiveness
capture
and
de-aging
equipment.

Commencing
with

Joker

and

Frozen
,
it
encompasses
a
diverse
selection
of
movies

from

Cemetery
of
Splendour
,

Parasite

and

Shoplifters

to

Mad
Max:
Fury
Street
,

Black
Panther

and

Midsommar
,
and
from

Norte,
the
Conclusion
of
Historical past
,

Holy
Motors

and

An
Elephant
Sitting
Still
to
Hustlers
,

Gravity

and

Toddler
Driver


to
seize
the
procedures
and
instructions
of
21st
century
cinema.

Cousins
sees

Gangs
of
Wasseypur

as
“one
of
the
most
complex”
gangster
films
in
the
80
several years
considering the fact that
the
birth
of
the
style.
A
“most
elaborately
choreographed
song”
from

Ram-Leela

showcasing
Ranveer
Singh
figures
in
the
film.

The
documentarian,
whose
credits
include

Females
Make
Movie

(2018)
and

The
Eyes
of
Orson
Welles
,
also
notes
“the
colours…
and
musical
energy”
of
another
Bollywood
variety,
this
one
from

PK
,
with
Aamir
Khan
and
Sanjay
Dutt.
The
filmmaker
describes
a
“tonal
shift”
in
PK
as
“one
of
the
biggest…
in
modern
cinema”.

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Part
Of
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Fortnight
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He
regards

Reason

as
one particular
of
the
most
sizeable
documentary
movies
of
our
times
and
identifies
a
“moment”
in
Patwardhan’s
film
as
“one
of
the
bravest…
in
recent
cinema”.

Ship
of
Theseus
,
with
its
topic
of
ailment,
healing
and
renewal,
is
held
up
as
a
cinematic
exemplar
of
the
transitions
that
mankind
is
witnessing
currently
as
it
sits
on
the
cusp
of
a
system
that
could
change
it
further than
recognition.

Cousins
tends to make
a
unique
point out
of
movies
that
place
a
finger
at
our
inhumanity
and
our
refusal
to
understand
the
classes
of
history.
Cousins
has
one more
movie
in
Cannes
Classics
this
year


The
Storms
of
Jeremy
Thomas
,
a
documentary
on
the
prolific
British
producer
who
has
around
the
past
five
decades
collaborated
with
a
couple of
of
the
world’s
best
filmmakers,
notably
Bernardo
Bertolucci,
Nagisa
Oshima,
Wim
Wenders,
Lars
von
Trier
and
David
Cronenberg.

By Harmony