May 4 2017 interview with Peter Greenaway (AKA "Famous Director")
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/modern-movies-are-appalling-says-famous-director-ahead-of-plymouth-talk/story-30311888-detail/story.html
[H]e is less than enamoured with the state of modern cinema.
"I think it's appalling" he said. "We've ended up with a cinema which is just bedtime stories for adults.
"The films are anodyne and repetitive – we've seen it all before.
"I hardly ever go to the cinema, I find it so boring."
Mr Greenaway said he had been a big fan of directors such as David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) and David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet), but felt their best work was behind them.
"Lynch has disappeared and Cronenberg is wasting his time illustrating novels," Mr Greenaway said.
He now prefers to look back to the work of earlier auteurs such as Sergei Eisenstein, Alain Resnais, whose 1961 movie Last Year at Marienbad he described as "the best film of the past 60 years", and his Italian "heroes" including Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
"But the Italians have now thrown it all away," he said. "I certainly respect Antonioni and Fellini, people with a visual sense, who tell stories in a visual way."
He said modern film-makers had not even taken full advantage of the "exciting digital revolution", still making movies in the same format at directors did in the 1950s and 1960s.
He said art should provide "the shock of the unfamiliar".
