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Stardustanna • 3 cards
The entire ecosystem of filmmaking blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels was recycling news and churning out half-baked content at a remarkable pace. From my perch atop the ecosystem, I could watch a story break, then spread from one aggregator to the next, eventually blanketing our entire corner of the internet in a thick smog of mediocrity.
Ungated • The Ungated Manifesto
Darabont makes all of these men so unbearably evil that we will not rest until we see our hero defeat them.
Carson Reeves • Scriptshadow Secrets (500 Screenwriting Secrets Hidden Inside 50 Great Movies)
Thierry Frémaux, head of the Cannes Film Festival and a vocal critic of streamers, understood this well when he presented the dilemma at a Cannes press conference in 2021. “What directors have been discovered by [streaming] platforms?” he asked. It wasn’t a rhetorical question. Frémaux began calling on journalists to name an auteur whose career had... See more
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
But I understand if they feel that starring in a new movie hardly requires them to reflect out loud on their inner lives.
Terry Gross • All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
Rogert Ebert: "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
“The packaging of all moving images as equitable content “has created a situation in which everything is presented to the viewer on a level playing field, which sounds democratic but isn’t,” Scorsese continues. “If further viewing is ‘suggested’ by algorithms based on what you’ve already seen, and the suggestions are based only on subject matter or... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
La presse de l’industrie du spectacle l’a porté aux nues non parce que c’était un grand film, mais parce qu’il avait coché toutes les cases de notre obsession du moment concernant la politique identitaire. Le personnage principal était gay, noir, pauvre, martyrisé et victime.
Bret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)
