Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins

Birthday: 1965-05-03

Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Also known as: Марк Казинс

imdb_id: nm0184108

Biography:

Mark Cousins is an Irish documentary filmmaker, film critic and programmer. A prolific producer and director, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey" (2011). Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013, as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and University of Stirling in 2014. He is now a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival. He is a Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019, as well as Member of the Official Competition jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, Cousins joined the jury of the BFI London Film Festival.

Played in movies:

Cinema Is Everywhere

Score: 9.0

The New Ten Commandments

Score: 8.7

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

Score: 8.0

The Complete Story of Film

Score: 8.0

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Score: 7.5

The First Movie

Score: 7.3

A Story of Children and Film

Score: 7.1

The Story of Film: A New Generation

Score: 7.1

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Score: 7.0

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 6.9

The March on Rome

Score: 6.3

I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

Score: 6.2

Cannes Uncut

Score: 5.8

Here Be Dragons

Score: 5.7

Who Is Bill Rebane?

Score: 5.7

The Story of Looking

Score: 5.6

Life May Be

Score: 5.5

Cinema Iran

Score: 5.5

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

Score: 5.5

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

Score: 4.0

Joie de Vivre

Score: 0.0

40 Days to Learn Film

Score: 0.0

50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

Score: 0.0

The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

Score: 0.0

Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died

Score: 0.0

The Film That Buys the Cinema

Score: 0.0

The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Score: 7.6

Scene by Scene

Score: 6.0

Moviedrome

Score: 6.0