The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 15: Cinema Today and the Future

Episode synopsis

Movies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore. But then David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive becomes one of the most complex dream films ever made and Inception turns film into a game. In Moscow, master director Alexander Sokurov talks exclusively about his innovative films. Then, a surprise: The Story of Film goes beyond the present, to look at film in the future.

About The Story of Film: An Odyssey

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Birth of the Cinema
• E2The Hollywood Dream
• E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
• E4The Arrival of Sound
• E5Post-War Cinema
• E6Sex & Melodrama
• E7European New Wave
• E8New Directors, New Form
• E9American Cinema of the 70s
• E10Movies to Change the World
• E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
• E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film