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All true, but, you're missing my nuance - that pre-streaming that box office "chart" was just Step One of a movie's life. There was still home video and TV showings. Now, with a movie that's an exclusive to a single streamer, once it falls off the "chart" it's out of sight, out of mind for the...

I did mention from the outset that the entirety of the article was good. I tried to start a thread solely on Fellini, but, I was told to merge here. If you missed it above, here is the full text of my comments on Scorsese/Fellini...

With all the discussion of Scorsese's comments about 'Cinema' and streaming, the main point of his article has been greatly overlooked: FEDERICO FELLINI. The entire piece is a wonderful valentine from one master filmmaker to another. The FULL article is here...

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Speaking of Chicken and Egg, the point Scorsese and I would make is that without a viable eco-system of distribution/reviews/curation worthy films don't get the spotlight on them in the first place to encourage folks to seek out the pictures. You can have all the chickens in the world laying...

As I noted in my opening piece, I allowed that no system was perfect. But, even those B movies got several chances at the apple via re-releases and years and years on TV. Name a single movie that went exclusively to streaming that has become recognized as a really "Good movie". Heck, name a...

But, the key difference even then is that the "Good films" got theatrically released, reviewed, went through the Awards process and then often Re-Released. Far different when a movie falls off a streaming service's Top 10 in a week or two and then you have to hunt for them. We're talking months...

Not sure why folks keep posting that Scorsese (or I) are "against" streaming. That wasn't Scorsese's point - in fact, he says that he's personally benefited from it. The point is that the current system of dumping films straight to streaming makes even a really good film just a product on an...

A new Harper's piece by Martin Scorsese about Federico Fellini has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy over a passage where he writes in part: "...the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator, “content.”...“Content”...