Cinema Scope

Editor’s Note

lot has happened just in the past few months in the film biz, considering that a fair number of us still aren’t supposed to leave our homes for non-essential reasons, cinemas still remain closed in many places at the time of writing, and publications still insist on releasing top-ten lists before the year is over. We are going through the process of forced adaptation, which is, pace Sontag, like a foreign object entering a body and the body having to react and.) But what if the shift to streaming is a virus that keeps mutating and can’t be stopped? Do we really want to make movies great again? Can we?

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