https://staging2.theplaylist.net/okja-tilda-swinton-says-we-didnt-come-to-cannes-for-prizes-20170519/ Wed, 24 May 2017 16:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/okja-tilda-swinton-says-we-didnt-come-to-cannes-for-prizes-20170519/#comment-153933 Fri, 19 May 2017 17:15:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=365687#comment-153933 They are trying to frame this as an artistic issue, but it’s really a business one; French distributors and film production are worried about Netflix taking over, which is reasonable. But making it about “things that debut on a small screen are not film” is painful. Keeping movies like Okja from artistic notoriety because of the technology they are presented on is hypocritical, not to mention elitist. Not that Netflix isn’t being pretty canny in causing this confrontation — it’s a business move on their part as well, to fund artists to make their business argument. But ultimately, filmmakers have to adapt to the systems that will get these kinds of films made; it’s the nature of movie making. At this moment, Indie film is naturally moving to the small screen; if we want artists to make art, we have to support the roads that get them there.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/okja-tilda-swinton-says-we-didnt-come-to-cannes-for-prizes-20170519/#comment-153928 Fri, 19 May 2017 14:01:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=365687#comment-153928 Bong is the family name. Calling him Joon-ho reads a bit… intimate?

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/okja-tilda-swinton-says-we-didnt-come-to-cannes-for-prizes-20170519/#comment-153927 Fri, 19 May 2017 11:12:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=365687#comment-153927 It’s Bong Joon-ho btw.

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