Even in Cannes, Mark Cousins stands out as a movie diehard

The Belfast-born, Edinburgh-based filmmaker and critic has a boundless affection for movies, and tastes that stretch around the globe. He has made pilgrimages in the footsteps of beloved films (like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ which he turned into a documentary) and composed mammoth, hours-long documentaries on the art form’s history propelled as much as anything by his own romantic, inquisitive sense of wonder