Out of the Past 2018 / The Eyes of Orson Welles / United Kingdom 2018
“Can we tell your story anew?” Mark Cousins asks Orson Welles, and then proceeds to look upon this iconic figure of 20th-century film from a practically unknown perspective: as the creator of hundreds of drawings and paintings to which Cousins gained exclusive access thanks in part to Welles’s daughter Beatrice. Cousins conceived his unconventional portrayal of the man behind Citizen Kane as an audiovisual letter to the visionary maestro, celebrated for his immense powers of imagination.
Good filmmakers are great cinephiles who truly appreciate the work of their revered colleagues. Shindô created a documentary on Mizoguchi, Bogdanovich on Ford, Scorsese on Kazan. “Can we tell your story anew?” Mark Cousins asks Orson Welles, and then proceeds to look upon this iconic figure of 20th-century film from a practically unknown perspective: as the creator of hundreds of drawings and paintings to which Cousins gained exclusive access thanks in part to Welles’s daughter Beatrice. Cousins’s unconventional portrayal of the man behind Citizen Kane, conceived as an audiovisual letter to the celebrated visionary, recently premiered at Cannes and follows the publication of a new book by the director, this time The Story of Looking.
Karel Och
115 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
Director Mark Cousins
/ Screenplay Mark Cousins
/ Dir. of Photography Mark Cousins
/ Music Matt Regan
/ Editor Timo Langer
/ Producer Adam Dawtrey
/ Production Bofa Productions
/ Sales Dogwoof
Mark Cousins (b. 1965, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom). Selected filmography: The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 2011, doc.), What Is This Film Called Love, 2012, doc.), A Story of Children and Film (2013, doc.), Life May Be (2014, doc.), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), Stockholm, My Love (2016, doc.)
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