For all the rubbish that gets released, an impressive number of smart, emotionally engaging movies appear every year.
And it is indeed true that watching movies on TV doesn't come close, as an aesthetic experience, to experience of watching them in a theater. A heads-up for listmembers in New York: in March Film Forum will have a series showcasing the films of the great Don Siegel; not to be missed!
Gary
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>From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>
>Carl:
>
>>[Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? -- Mark 8:18. BTW,
>>the projected 41 million US audience mentioned below did not materialize.
>>Nielsen reports 38.8 million Americans viewed the Oscars, down 8% from
>>last year.]
>
>I've no doubt that Hollywood's biz is off -- nothing new on that front. I
>simply don't see the film industry "flatlining" which, to me, means that's
>it's dead. People will always want to watch movies.
... Movies could be a passing fad, since the industry has entered a persistent vegetative state that is embarrassing to see. Movies seem to skew either to the vapidity of today's mass market releases -- "big screens .. awash in the fast and the furious, the cheap and the stupid," as that NYT article put it -- or to the suffocating solipsistic whimsy of the indie market.
Carl
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