I was watching this long interview with David Cronenberg when I realized it’s been 6 years since his last film.
Later, I found a 2016 Indiewire article which explains that Cronenberg was considering retirement due to the increasing difficulty in finding financing for his films.
I blame Disney.
It’s not as if there aren’t interesting, smaller films being made, but they do seem to be fewer and further between. At the very least you have to look harder to find them because all the air in the room keeps getting sucked up by a new Star War or more superhero shit.
There ought to be a cinema-carbon-offsetting program. Every time a studio pollutes culture with yet another tent-pole, blockbuster, theme-park attraction masquerading as cinema (shout out to Scorsese), they should be made to finance 10 sub-50 million dollar movies (Hell, or 50 sub-10 million!) and if it’s a sequel to one of the aforementioned pollutants? The offset should have to double.
Let’s get more films made from the “old masters”. The Cronenbergs and Lynchs of the world and lots of new and emerging filmmakers. Give us work from women, filmmakers of colour, LGBTQIA+ filmmakers, people making experimental films, foreign language films etc.
When I am king.
Currently Playing: Desired – “Nineteen + Memory Tape”
Currently (Still) Reading: HEAVY WEATHER, Bruce Sterling
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