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Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

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Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.

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Returning SeriesIn ProductionDocumentary
Original Network
BBC Four
Episodes & Seasons

3 Seasons • 11 Episodes

60 min per episode

Air Date Window

2018 – Present

Premiered: Tue, Jul 17, 2018

Created By

Creative Production Team

Latest Aired Episode

Aired: Mon, Jan 25, 2021

Season 3, Episode 3: “Cult Movies”

Mark Kermode invites you on an entertaining journey into the weird and wonderful world of cult movies, filled with some of the strangest, most truly original and unexpected moments in cinema. Film-makers don’t decide what becomes a cult movie, argues Mark. We - the audience - do. Mark looks at the qualities a film needs to acquire cult status, and the main types of cult movie, from films that are so bad they’re good, to groundbreaking masterpieces of foreign language cinema. Some cult films set out to shock and break taboos; others are camp classics embraced by audiences who find new or hidden meanings in them. Mark also explores the strange phenomenon of cult films about actual cults, and looks at the future of cult cinema in an age when even the most obscure and offbeat movie is just a download away.

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Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema: Series 2 Trailer | BBC TrailersOfficial

Type: Trailer • Published 2020-02-20

Creative Leadership & Key Crew

Screenplay & Story

Mark Kermode, Kim Newman

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Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode

Writer

Kim Newman

Kim Newman

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Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.

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Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema comprises 3 seasons available to explore.

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