Wicked, wicked good points here. I felt the same thing when I saw that video on my Youtube feed and assumed what it would be about–I reckoned it would be friendly-fire in a way. By that I mean exactly what you said which is that these things aren’t from a lack of will/desire on the part of filmmakers, but yet another causality of The Great Enshittification Of Our Culture–and more specifically, our art.
Commercial art has always been influenced by commercial incentives, and as commercial incentives become worse and worse, it will be harder for the plants to grow through the concrete
Exactly. Even videoclips have gotten so much better.
My feeling is that this is a direct consequence of feeling everything is “content”, too. Not by filmmakers, but by producers and the like. And also, I perceived way before this decade that the image have resented a lot. There are exceptions (the tennis scene in Challengers or certain films), but Pedro Costa, a Portuguese filmmaker, insisted that shots are being less and less conceived and thought, and this is the next step in the process.
By conceived I mean that those shots has some sense of purpose. It’s harder and harder, in my opinion, to find those, and those films are more and more marginal. I’m scared of what might come up in the 2030s if the trend continues.
Tangentially related to the above discussion - what exactly happened with Technicolor? Is it that there aren’t any machines left to do it (I think I heard there’s only one left and it’s in China somewhere?) or the knowledge on how to do it is lost?
The day that we go in on this movie, hit me up. I’ll be first in line to give it its lashings. (not really for anything Fincher does though, my problem is with shitlib lucifer, Aaron Sorkin)
Took this opportunity to watch The Killer as I hadn’t yet, and to fault it for looking clinical misunderstands that that is the point of the movie
Do you mean what happened to color film processing, or shooting with Technicolor cameras? In the former case the broad answer is the shift away from film as a format, though I might be misunderstanding. If you mean Technicolor the company, Hollywood moved away from that technology in the 1950s, although Technicolor handled printing and more recently film preservation/restoration (I assume what you’re referring to). I was surprised to learn they still existed in some form until recently but filed for bankruptcy in 2020.
I continue not being well equipped to say anything meaningful about movies for lack of exposure to (the good parts of) the medium but I just watched In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai and that movie was so atmospherically dense.
Lot’s of great looking shots, beautiful people. An interesting way of telling the story. I liked how you could never once see the protagonists’ spouses. Except from the back a couple of times.
My girlfriend wanted to watch it - having seen it before - and I’m grateful for it.
this is something i’m 100 percent going to watch. I’m going to talk to my ad hoc art theater. A roll it’s had since the real art theater closed during the pandemic and never reopened. It’s for sale at 810k. Give me a break. I’m daddy no bucks not warbucks. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I like movies too much to care about the Oscars – but that isn’t stopping me watching it with a group of friends to laugh at it and share communal misery at all the slop that has been nominated and wins.
At least No Other Land won Best Documentary. Probably the only award I actually am interested in / care about
