Brian De Palma on modern movies: "They all look the same"

Brian De Palma on modern movies: "They all look the same" Mar 26, 2020 21:02:32 GMT onethreetwo and Fox in the Snow like this

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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 21:02:32 GMT

Mar 26, 2020 20:42:45 GMT Fox in the Snow said:

People forget there's a whole world of independent and international cinema out there, if you look beyond Marvel etc. that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of the classics. In many cases they rely on the affordability and logistical freedoms of digital.

I revert once again to my man Lav Diaz

You own the brush now, you own the gun, unlike before, where it was all owned by the studio. Now it is all yours. It is so free now. I can finish one whole film inside this room . . . We do not depend on film studios and capitalists anymore. This is liberation cinema now . . . Digital is liberation theology. Now we can have our own media. The Internet is so free, the camera is so free. The issue is not anymore that you cannot shoot. You have a South East independent cinema now. We have been deprived for a long time, we have been neglected, we have been dismissed by the Western media. That was because of production logistics. We did not have money, we did not have cameras, all those things. Now, these questions have been answered. We are on equal terms now.

That's what I'm saying. Is he just going by the marquee at chain theaters within malls? What about Parasite? Cold War, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Shoplifters, Greener Grass, Mandy, Color out of Space, just same old indistinguishable crap can't tell one from the other? Of course not. One of them (one of my faves of the ones I listed) is a black and white movie from 2018. Color is available so it's clearly an artistic choice. The latter 3 I wouldn't call the movies that stand on the shoulders of giants but they're definitely different looking. Greener Grass is one the most peculiar looking (and just plain peculiar) movies I've seen this year (made last year). It's bizarre and it stars its writer and director so you know she takes it seriously.

Yeah, the world might look crappy out there but even it's not enough to make me forget movies really can be anything by anybody at any time.