A Brief Introduction
My journey began around 2011. In my early to mid-teens, cinema became perhaps my greatest passion, a passion I had cultivated from multiple experiences. Chief among those experiences were my discovery of films widely considered to be among the greatest in cinema history - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968), Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941), and North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959), to name but a few - and when I began to follow popular film criticism, the work of Mark Kermode in specific. I began to consume films at a more sophisticated level than I had before. But I think what truly awakened me to the art of cinema, its global cultural significance beyond the popular entertainment I had known it to be before, was when I watched the Channel Four documentary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Channel Four Television, 2011) - and subsequently read the book on which it was based, The Story of Film (Cousins, 2004). What I found (and continue to find) compelling, in...
