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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
S01 E11 / THE ARRIVAL OF MULTIPLEXES AND ASIAN MAINSTREAM
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EP 01
BIRTH OF THE CINEMA
EP 02
THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM
EP 03
THE GOLDEN AGE OF WORLD CINEMA
EP 04
THE ARRIVAL OF SOUND
EP 05
POST-WAR CINEMA
EP 06
SEX & MELODRAMA
EP 07
EUROPEAN NEW WAVE
EP 08
NEW DIRECTORS, NEW FORM
EP 09
AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE 70S
EP 10
MOVIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD
EP 11
THE ARRIVAL OF MULTIPLEXES AND ASIAN MAINSTREAM
EP 12
FIGHT THE POWER: PROTEST IN FILM
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THE ARRIVAL OF MULTIPLEXES AND ASIAN MAINSTREAMStar 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.
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