Mark Cousins
@markcousinsfilm
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/ Best info about me:
Luton airport completely mobbed, but I skulked about and found this haven
Sam Neill also co-directed (with Judy Rymer) this great film about NZ cinema
6 hour hold over at Luton airport so I thought I'd walk and try to find some nature
I go to Armenia in a few days, a place that I've imagined and longed for for decades. The films of Artavazd Peleshyan, Sergei Paradjanov. The buildings of Stepan Kyurkchyan, Artur Tarkhanyan. Plus one of the world's great monasteries, Geghard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geghard
Where we premiered this section of our film today. I'm not a critic, but how nice to have a review like this. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
I've long had a soft spot for the Minions, and the new film is fun at the start - Orson! Buster K! Charlie Chaplin! But then the rubbish orange blob kills it.
Because of the Frida Kahlo show in Tate Modern, there's lots of talk about her again. So many films about her. The best by far that I've seen is Mexican (1983), directed by the great Paul Leduc : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_S...
Working two days in one at the moment. This heat, lethargy. Easy to fall asleep. Dreaming about being somewhere else, less hot.
My recent books DEAR ORSON WELLES AND OTHER ESSAYS: irishpages.org/product/dear... THE STORY OF LOOKING: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Heading to Docs Ireland film fest in Belfast. Another great looking programme. I'm doing an illustrated talk on documentary and domestic space today at 4pm, QFT. And Ireland/Uk premiere of 1st hour of my The Story of Documentary Film is on Sat, 6.15pm. Hope to see some of you there!
Proud to be from a city - Belfast - that has citizens like this. Respect
My last night in Paris, prawns, peaches and prosecco picnic with this grande dame How she still shares her perfume, her allure
Walked 4 hours to get to this church of the Saint- Esprit, architect Paul Tournon (dad of the architect of the nursery school i mentioned earlier) Wow As moving as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Raw concrete. Dome representing the holy spirit
Georges Bernanos. Best known to movie lovers for his novels made into films by Robert Bresson
Rue dageuerre where Agnes Varda made one of her best films Daguerreotypes
Revolutionary Marat was initially buried in the Pantheon on the right here, but was then de-Pantheonised and is now somewhere around the church on the left.