Documentary filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins has made features about the writer D. H. Lawrence (6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia), his hometown (My Belfast), and the bombing of Hiroshima (Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise). But it is in his work devoted to cinema that he has made his biggest impact. He is the director of the fifteen-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey; its sequel, The Story of Film: A New Generation; The Eyes of Orson Welles; The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, about the Oscar-winning producer; and many other works that display his vast knowledge of film. Among this year’s SFFILM Festival offerings is his witty survey My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock. We dedicate this year’s POV presentation to the late Tom Luddy, whom Cousins calls “one of the most influential film people of the second half of the twentieth century.” The POV presentation includes Cousins in conversation with Thom Powers, host of the Pure Nonfiction podcast and the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a screening of The March on Rome. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock will screen on April 21. 

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