As the U.K.’s most noted and prolific documentarian of cinema, Mark Cousins has lent his deep knowledge of films and filmmaking — alongside his distinct poetic voiceover tones — to numerous celebra…
, Cousins explains why he never feared for the future of cinema despite the year of lockdown, how he ended up being the first director picked by Thierry Fremaux for 2021’s selection and why anyone venturing to a particular Cannes pier at 2 a.m. one night might be in for a surprise.It felt good! I’ve always taken the long view of these things.
Oh yeah. I’ve had the same editor for my last 13 feature films. He lives 30 miles away and would shlep to my edit suite every day. Usually, he and I would work a 9-5 and get a bit bored in the middle. But the whole rhythm of editing has changed — it’s turned into more of a burst of activity over three hours on Zoom, then we’ll click off and go away and do some writing and thinking and meet again after lunch.
Actually, two producers came to me and said you should make a film about Jeremy and I said, oh yes, I’d love to. When I was 15 his filmcame out and it was unbelievable. So I’ve admired him from afar. But, as usual, I made a list of all the conventional ways of doing such a film and then struck everything off that. So no talking heads or any of that. Instead, he and I got in a car, I took two cameras and three tripods and about 100 batteries, and we just drove through France for five days.
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