Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Maybe the emotional payoff of a fixed narrative is too ingrained in audiences to be eliminated. It certainly hasn’t been easy for Hustwit to adapt “Eno”to the commercial conventions of streaming and DVDs.

What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it co... See more

- "Pater said beauty is impossible without some element of strangeness; the potential for beauty was built into his own “strange webs” of significance, spun in such writerly fashion around the object with which he was in dialogue. Criticism is one way to be the spider, paying out silk, both navigating and creating the web as one goes. What defines ... See more

I see cinematography as the final and last medium left in this society, artistically speaking, that can be enjoyed by many people. Painting, sculpture etc., have limited audiences … People should make a big effort to keep it as an art medium. I like to paint on the screen. I like to create a mood and treat it as an art form, the last art form. I ha

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