Hello! Some years ago, I worked for a studio. This was in the days when movie studios didn’t put all their eggs into franchise baskets, when they were at least occasionally in the business of making movies that weren’t based on IP. I was running the New York office for one of the three feature divisions of 20th Century Fox, and thus found myself that fall at a corporate retreat with a gaggle of News Corp’s senior brass. The studio was having good year. Earlier that year
This article I believe represents my own retreat from going to the movies. They are too expensive to gamble on for viewers like me. I'm not motivated to watch superhero franchises. And $20 to watch a well acted adult drama without Godzilla or Batman is $20 too much. However I'm very motivated to see "Oppenheimer" and I might spend $25 for that film. But then I won't go to the movies again for another two years. I don't think they want to build a business around people like me.
I was born working class, never had an iota of paid education. 49 pupils to one teacher in one classroom in my South London primary school. No execs, writers, teachers, "professionals" in my family. The best cinema is not "middle class" but for all of us. There is no "middle class cinema"—this is a contradiction in terms. There is only the cinema of humanity. And yes—as you say Matthew, it has been progressively shut down.
Good one. The Player has now gone on my TBR list.
This article I believe represents my own retreat from going to the movies. They are too expensive to gamble on for viewers like me. I'm not motivated to watch superhero franchises. And $20 to watch a well acted adult drama without Godzilla or Batman is $20 too much. However I'm very motivated to see "Oppenheimer" and I might spend $25 for that film. But then I won't go to the movies again for another two years. I don't think they want to build a business around people like me.
I was born working class, never had an iota of paid education. 49 pupils to one teacher in one classroom in my South London primary school. No execs, writers, teachers, "professionals" in my family. The best cinema is not "middle class" but for all of us. There is no "middle class cinema"—this is a contradiction in terms. There is only the cinema of humanity. And yes—as you say Matthew, it has been progressively shut down.