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Diversity:
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been the case since 1989 with Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape]. On many weekends, one or more of those titles captures first-place in per-screen average receipts. Yet most moviegoers outside large urban centers can’t find those titles in their local gigantiplex. Instead, all the shopping center compounds seem to be showing the same few overhyped disappointments. Those films open with big ad campaigns, play a couple of weeks, and disappear.
The myth that small-town moviegoers don’t like “art movies” is undercut by Netflix’s viewing results; the third most popular movie on Dec. 28 on Netflix was “Certified Copy,” by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. You’ve heard of [him]? In fourth place—French director Alain Corneau’s “Love Crime.” In fifth, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo“—but the subtitled Swedish version.
The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s the theaters that are losing their charm. Proof: theaters thrive that police their audiences, show a variety of titles and emphasize value-added features. The rest of the industry can’t depend forever on blockbusters to bail it out.
~ Roger Ebert
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Steven Spielberg talks about the importance of mystery - how it takes us somewhere that simple high-fidelity documentation doesn’t:
Since 2001, no documentary, no other movie, no IMAX experience being on the shuttle looking down at the earth has taken me into space as much as 2001 did. And made me fear it and made me want it so desperately.
[Video: Remembering Stanley Kubrick: Steven Spielberg Paul Joyce (1999)]
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“You are, as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. I swore to them I would protect you and I haven’t.”
Like watching your father cry. If only Bruce had a father, ZING!
So Tom Hardy is Bronson and then Bane, is Bane, Bronson! It makes sense on some odd level or does it just prove that Tom Hardy is going completely rock our socks as Bane? But then Christopher Nolan hasn’t seen Bronson so is it all just pot lock? Either way, Daaaaaaaarrrrrrrrkkkkkkk Knnnnnniiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhttttttttttt Riiiiiiiissssssseeeeeeeeeessssssssssss
The Shining by Brek Townsend
All Minimallism and Stanley Kubrick makes Me a happy boy.
“You guys give up yet? Or are you thirsty for more?” Holiday Showdown Week: day1
Its Christmas so Home Alone is surely just around the corner for all of us, no matter HOW many times you’ve seen it.
Video Game Minimalism Print - by Joseph Harrold
Available on Etsy
More Minimalism than your body has room for! Although it is minimal so maybe you could fit more in? Lets have more then!
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