loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
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Here’s a truly loaded question:
How to do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
It was posed by Martin Scorsese at a talk at London Film Festival this past weekend. Via Variety:
Martin Scorsese Urges Young Filmmakers to Reinvent Cinema in Streaming Age: ‘Content Is Something You Eat and Throw Away’
Martin Scorsese said the entertainment industry is in a “period of reinventing” cinema during his Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival on Saturday, urging young filmmakers to use new technology for good as opposed to making “content.”
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“I really mean this: I don’t know where cinema is going to go,” Scorsese continued. “Why does it have to be the same as it was for the past 90-100 years? It doesn’t. Do we prefer films from the last 90-100 years? I do, but I’m old. Younger people are going to see the world around them in a different way, you’re going to see it fragmented … What does one shot mean now? I don’t know anymore. I don’t think it means anything … You all are in the process of a period of reinventing it. It’s quite an extraordinary time, and a lot of it has to do with the technology.”
Scorsese said that though with that new technology comes more freedom, it should also cause young filmmakers to “rethink what you want to say and how you want to say it.” He added, “Ideally, I hope — I hesitate to use the word — ‘serious’ film could still be made with this new technology and this new world we’re apart of.”
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here?
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
Here’s a truly loaded question:
How to do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
It was posed by Martin Scorsese at a talk at London Film Festival this past weekend. Via Variety:
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here?
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