The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

The Story of Film: An Odyssey Season 1 Episode 11

Overview:
Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. In India the world’s most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the seventies too. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where master Yuen Woo-ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography for The Matrix.

Release Date : 2011-11-12

Genre : Documentary

Duration : 63 menit

Rating : ⭐ 8.2/10 (4 votes)

Actors : Mark Cousins, Mario Cordova

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Other Episodes (Season 1)

Birth of the Cinema
1. Birth of the Cinema
The Hollywood Dream
2. The Hollywood Dream
The Golden Age of World Cinema
3. The Golden Age of World Cinema
The Arrival of Sound
4. The Arrival of Sound
Post-War Cinema
5. Post-War Cinema
Sex & Melodrama
6. Sex & Melodrama
European New Wave
7. European New Wave
New Directors, New Form
8. New Directors, New Form
American Cinema of the 70s
9. American Cinema of the 70s
Movies to Change the World
10. Movies to Change the World
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
11. The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
12. Fight the Power: Protest in Film
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
13. New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
14. New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Cinema Today and the Future
15. Cinema Today and the Future


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