film synopsis
The prolific, provocative and voracious cineaste, Mark Cousins, follows up his 15-hour The Story of Film: An Odyssey with a new (and briefer) installment. A New Generation looks at how 21st-century filmmakers have expanded cinema’s horizons, how new digital technologies (from iPhones to motion capture) have changed the way we look at the world and how diverse new voices have opened our eyes to new experiences. Whether he’s showing a clip from Joker or Black Panther, or a five-hour action movie from India or a documentary from Belarus, the encyclopedic Cousins never fails to stimulate. Examining innovations in comedy, action movies, musicals and documentary, showing how filmmakers find new ways of looking at bodies, demonstrating the connection between Edgar Wright’s 2017 romp Baby Driver and the 1932 musical Love Me Tonight, Cousins' wide-eyed and wide-ranging survey is a movie lover’s dream come true.