Mark Cousins
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Sep 18, 2026
Kirsty LangHOST
He worked on more than 80 titles and championed the careers of auteur filmmakers, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Nicholas Roeg and David Cronenberg.
Kirsty LangHOST
The writer and director Mark Cousins produced the documentary The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, which told the story of his eclectic career.
Mark CousinsGUEST
Jeremy was different because he didn't believe in the middle brow.
Mark CousinsGUEST
He didn't, you know, we all like a rom-com or a Spielberg movie or something feel good.
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Kirsty LangHOST
I don't
Wendell BerrySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
know whether we'll see deer on this trip or not, but early and late we'd be likely to see deer.
Kirsty LangHOST
But he was also a writer, an essayist and a poet, first winning attention with a manifesto called The Unsettling of America.
Kirsty LangHOST
It was about how to save small farms from big business and a government bent on agricultural efficiency, which he felt was destroying the land and...
Isabel MoirGUEST
And there'll be lots of people you'll recognize in it, like Tilda Swinton and his collaborators.
Isabel MoirGUEST
Um, we also have the next installment of Mark Cousins' essay on the history of documentaries, The Story of Documentary Film, which chronicles the kind of 1990s.
Isabel MoirGUEST
And we also have-- there's a lot of-- I think if you're into kind of-- been looking at the festivals, there's been, um, a film that premiered at Sundance, um, earlier this year in January, was Once Upon a Time in Harlem.
Isabel MoirGUEST
It's filmed by William Greaves and completed by his son David, um, more than 50 years later.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
So I think his project is to bring back this status and question why it's forgotten.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
But meanwhile, he thinks, and many of around him, like James Gray, one of the most extensive dialogues with him is with James Gray and Mark Cousins, to understand that.
Devika GirishHOST
And how does he deal with the, you know, the case of Maria Schneider being, you know, coerced into a rape scene, which obviously when we talk about Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, that's very top of mind now for our generation.
Öykü SofuoğluGUEST
Yeah.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
It should be said that he'd previously made another film with the editor, Walter Fasano, called Bertolucci on Bertolucci, which is basically Bertolucci talking about himself.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
lot of this film is other people including Guadagnino talking about Bertolucci and I mean you know the cast list is incredible there's James Gray Martin Scorsese Deborah Winger Jeremy Thomas who talks fascinatingly about how they made The Last Emperor you've got a bunch of critics American Italian you've got Mark Cousins who for some reason, chose not to wear trousers while he was being interviewed.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
He was at home.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
But that's Mark
Greg LaemmleHOST
Jim Jarmusch on Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.
Greg LaemmleHOST
Mark Cousins, reimagining a master in My Name is Alfred Hitchcock.
Greg LaemmleHOST
M. Beth Davids, Directing and starring in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
Greg LaemmleHOST
Sarah Hockey and Mohamedreza Enyi on their Academy Award-nominated documentary Cutting Through Rocks.
Greg LaemmleHOST
Starting now.
Greg LaemmleHOST
Alfred Hitchcock decided to take us on a guided tour through his remarkable body of work.
Greg LaemmleHOST
What if he were able to tell his story in the first person? Celebrated filmmaker Mark Cousins takes us on such a journey, providing new insights on one of the most iconic filmmakers of all time.
Mark CousinsGUEST
I just decided to watch all his films in order and try to imagine what he would say today.
Jim SimpsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Dodgers have had three baserunners, have left two, and one has been thrown out.
Jim SimpsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our national anthem, as you've heard, was sung tonight by Gordon McRae, Mark Cousins on the first baseball, Dan Musial, Ernie Banks in attendance in the commissioner's box tonight.
Jim SimpsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two great, great players.
Jim SimpsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thanks, a sure shot for the Hall of Fame.
Davia Nelson and Nikki SilvaHOST
Thanks to Tom's wife, Monique Montgomery.
Davia Nelson and Nikki SilvaHOST
More thanks to Mark Cousins, Peter Sellers, to Joel Cullen, Ken Burns, John Bailey, Matt Dillon, and the amazing Ed Lachman.
Davia Nelson and Nikki SilvaHOST
Thanks to the astonishing archives and the people who run them who shared the recordings of Tom presenting films across four decades.
Davia Nelson and Nikki SilvaHOST
Edith Kramer and Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive, KPFA, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Telluride Film Festival Archives, Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival, and the Bay Area Book Festival.