Mark Cousins

Jul 5, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Mark Cousins

DMovies's editor Victor Fraga interviews Irish director Mark Cousins at Karlovy Vary, where he showcases his latest creation at the Crystal Globe Competition; they talk about the relationship between painting and the moving image, playing films backwards, neurodiversity as a catalyst for creativity, tattoos, the new UK PM, Palestine, and more I was very excited to meet Mark Cousins, and I wasn’t disappointed. I had previously interviewed him, but it wasn’t face-to-face.

Apr 2, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Mark Cousins |Alfred Hitchcock |Alexandre O. Philippe

In terms of longevity and influence, Alfred Hitchcock proved to be one of the most enduring directors of his generation, spearheading a narrative style that was homaged by James Bond directors John Glen and Peter Hunt in later years. His status was assured to the point where his name stood comfortably beside Hollywood luminaries Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and James Cagney, becoming a director ubiquitous within the realm of celebrity culture.

Dec 19, 2023 | theguardian.com | Mark Cousins

A WhatsApp from Maggie Renzi, the producer of John Sayles’s Lone Star and most of his other films: “Cari has died.”No need for a surname, there’s only one Cari in our lives. Maggie and John sat me next to Cari Beauchamp in a pizza restaurant in Cannes around 2001. For three hours that night I listened to this expansive Californian. I’d read her book Without Lying Down, about women in early Hollywood, so was all ears.

Sep 22, 2023 | metacritic.com | Mark Cousins |Matt Zoller Seitz |Peter Bradshaw |Jason Solomons

As always, I find myself considering that in a world where everyone’s a cynic and an ironist, Cousins’s unaffected rapture is unique and refreshing. And there is an odd-couple comedy here, with Cousins as the unstoppably garrulous super-fan and Thomas as the reticent English gentleman, almost like a charismatic Cambridge don on the long vacation, who has picked up a voluble hitchhiker. Read More

Aug 31, 2023 | thespectator.com | Mark Cousins |FoodThe simple possibilities |Olivia Potts |Douglas Murray

Alfred Hitchcock: the master of suspense. We grew up seeing his entertaining thrillers on TV, beautifully made movies about elegant people in danger. The glamour of To Catch a Thief; Cary Grant as the wrong man on the run in North by Northwest; Tippi Hedren looking chic with her chignon, brutally attacked in The Birds by the titular avian menace. Don’t look for heart, though. These were emotionally detached films, weren’t they? In his publicity Hitchcock joked about murder.