Same basic idea as “the toys that made us” (surprisingly enjoyable IMO).

Behind the scenes look at many hit movies. I’m a few episodes in and really enjoying it, a good watch for movie fans.

Kind of related..., check out The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011).

Found it's playing on our library's hoopla streaming service. Rewatching it now. Bonus... I've found Mark Cousins' accent hard to follow at times, and this version has subtitles! The dvd series did not.


With all its talk of box office, the film business would have us believe that money drives movies. Ticket sales. Marketing. Glamour. Premiers. Red carpets. But it doesn't. Money doesn't drive cinema. The money men don't know the secrets of the human heart or the brilliance of the medium of film. But if money doesn't drive movies, what does? Here's the answer: ideas.

Watch how a shot of bubbles becomes an idea in movie history. This is a scene from the British director Carol Reed's 1946 movie Odd Man Out. A guy's in a mess. He sees his trouble reflected in the bubbles of a spilled drink. Now look at another close-up of bubbles in a drink. Again a character is in trouble, self-absorbed. This film's director, Jean-Luc Godard, knew and admired Carol Reed's work, so he was probably thinking of Odd Man Out when, 20 years later, he filmed this moment. Now look at Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver of 1976. Scorsese loved the films of Carol Reed and Jean-Luc Godard and so used the same idea, that a character looking into bubbles can see their own troubles, and also, somehow, the cosmos.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) Episode 1 - Birth of the Cinema

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Watched all 4 episodes of it. Die Hard, Ghostbusters and Dirty Dancing we’re very interesting.

The fact that they filmed Home Alone in a school was pretty wild.

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The fact that they filmed Home Alone in a school was pretty wild.

The home alone episode is great! I had no idea it almost never made it to the big screen.

I've never seen Dirty Dancing or Home Alone, but I enjoyed both the episodes.

I've never seen dirty dancing but as I've found with some podcasts, you dont always have to see the subject to enjoy its description and zany story. I've enjoyed the other episodes quite a bit and hope the series continues.