The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Season 1 Episode 11: The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

Star 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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

15

Cast:

Mark Cousins, Mario Cordova

Quality:

HD

Duration:

63 min

First Air:

2011

Rating:

7.7