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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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