No.7728
What do you guys think of the whole "cinema only lasted a century" opinion that seems to be common among many great directors?
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No.7730
Last year Zulawski said "[t]he only progress in film nowadays is in technology" which sounds curmudgeonly but still has a ring of truth to me. Advances in technology often seem to be overshadowing advances in creativity.
At the same time, it's hard to definitively comment on history while it is happening. I expect there's a lot of interesting films being made right now that won't become fully appreciated for some time.
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No.7733
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>>7728
>common among many great directors
Chris Marker said that? Who else? I didn't hear about it before.
Can you give more context, did they think film died in the 1980s (or maybe in late 1970s with Jaws / Star Wars)
The oldest films are watched for historical reasons more than anything. But if you were limited to 100 years of film you would probably ignore all the old stuff. There were almost no good feature films until 1915 or so.
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No.7735
>>7728
dying people want to believe they were important when they weren't and are eventually forgotten
like those people crying of the youth or expecting ww3 any moment now
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No.7736
i'd say that a load of shit. perhaps hollywood died in the late 70s, but that's just about the time that independent film took off. i mean, maybe cinema "proper" as in a 2 hour film is winding down, but look at all the creativity pouring out on youtube or similar
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No.7750
>>7733
>who else
Godard, Greenaway, Rossellini, Kaurismaki
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No.7789
>>7728
"only"? A whole century is not that bad for an "invention without any future" as Louis Lumiere in 1896.
Anyway I don't think the cinema died. There's always been good and bad movies, it's as simple as that. Even nowadays there's still good movies.
As long as you have something to say...
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No.7790
>>7728
That's overblown to me, especially the 'technological is bad' kind of angle as >>7730 said.
More tech has the bad side of increasing needed resources for films, but more tech also has the good side of making it easy to get started or try newer things.
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