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THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY
December 2, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 12:45 a.m. ET

 

This is the penultimate episode of this imported documentary series, which really is worth setting your recorders to catch. It’s so intelligent, insightful and informative that every episode leaves you enthused about films in general, and the movies discussed in particular. And TCM shows some of the films tonight as bonus treats, including Quentin Tarantino’s breakthrough film, 1992’s Reservoir Dogs (pictured), at 4:15 a.m. ET. So record and enjoy, despite some absurdly dull and lengthy episode titles for each entry in this 15-part series. Tonight’s part 14, for example, is subtitled The 1990s – The First Days of Digital: Reality Losing Its Realness In America and Australia? That may be the least appealing title for a pop-culture overview since, oh, my own first book, Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously. Seriously?

 
 
 
 
 
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