By Eileen Jones
After a summer like the one we’ve just had, you’d be justified in asking, once again, “Why are movies such a pile of crap lately?”
According to Peter Greenaway, British filmmaker, it’s because, as he puts it, “Cinema is dead.” It’s been dead for ages, apparently, so the pile of crap we keep encountering is the decomposing body of cinema. Or something.
If you’re an established filmmaker, you can dine out for years on a line like “Cinema is dead.” For some reason it makes artistically inclined people give you money to fund your cinematic projects. That’s what you call “irony.”
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September 18th, 2010 | Comments (35)
