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Why Karlovy Vary Winner Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton Are ‘On Fire’ for Painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: ‘She Was an Unstoppable Life Force’
Mark Cousins talks Karlovy Vary winner ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,’ about painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
In his Karlovy Vary Film Festival winner “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,” Cousins peeks inside the mind of the forgotten artist, who passed away in 2004. In his career, Cousins has been talking both about the famous and about the unknown, about Hitchcock, Welles and obscure female filmmakers in much-celebrated “Women Make Film.” Then, in the late 90s, they became commercially viable on the big screen with the Madonna film [‘Truth or Dare’] and ‘Buena Vista Social Club.’ Each time reality gets really weird, documentaries start to feel necessary.
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