11. Innovation in Popular Culture:
As well as creating the multiplexes, Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist were also innovative. The programme then travels to India, where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s too. And there's a look at how Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his 'wire fu' choreography for The Matrix.
12. Protest in the movies of the 1980's:
With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s was a decade of protest in the movies. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema was blossoming before the Tian'anmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, and in Poland the master director Krzysztof Kieslowski emerges.
Advisories:
- Disturbing Content
- Sunday August 12, 2012 at 4:30PM
- Wednesday August 15, 2012 at 7:00PM
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey
- The Story Of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 1 & 2 (2011)
- The Story Of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 3 & 4 (2011)
- The Story Of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 5 & 6 (2011)
- The Story Of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 7 & 8 (2011)
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 9 & 10 (2011)
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 11 & 12 (2011)
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 13 & 14 (2011)
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episode 15 (2011)
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