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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Peoples' main issue with this seem to be the arbitrary nature of the film choices, which seems a bit passe as it's fairly evident that this is auteur work. It is very much Mark Cousins's personal odyssey; complaining about your own favourites not being here is fairly redundant. Cousins's own narration veered from being annoying to slightly endearing, it is delivered in a highly sing-song Ulster accent
 
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    Ross Patterson

    10Sep12

    and there is plenty of room for him passing off assertions and embellishments as fact, but he is indulged on this occasion because of his own knowledge and love of film, and also the sheer scale of the project. An odyssey indeed.