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MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Story of Film’ is wildly ambitious eight-part documentary

By Mark Feeney

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 16, 2012

***1/2 The Story of Film: An Odyssey This 2011 eight-part documentary made for British television takes in 14 decades, six continents (sorry, Antarctica), and one art form. Like that art form, it’s wildly ambitious, often extremely good, occasionally maddening, and always stimulating. Writer-director Mark Cousins’s unifying conception is cinematic innovation — or as he pronounces it in his Ulster accent (he narrates, too), “en-iv-ay-shun.” (916 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney)

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