AMC has announced that its theaters will be opening soon with
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet”, a typical summer blockbuster. Social
distancing will be followed with no more than 30 percent of the seats
filled and the staff wearing masks. I suppose that Nolan will be a
magnet for fans of his movies, an experience roughly equivalent to
playing a video game while on methamphetamine. Every one that I have
seen has left me cold, especially “Interstellar” that inspired this faux
trailer
<https://louisproyect.org/2014/11/04/alternative-trailer-for-interstellar/>.
I’ll probably get a studio freebie for “Tenet” in time for our yearly
NYFCO awards meeting but I doubt it will be a hundredth as good as the
films that have come my way as virtual cinema, a fancy name for VOD.
Indeed, I have received more screeners this year than in recent memory.
As it happens, the documentaries, the foreign-language films, and the
off-beat indie films I cover never faced the same obstacles as the big
studios. Film Forum, Laemmle, et al have simply gone virtual, all to the
benefit of the filmmakers and their audiences for whose tastes I cater.
Although the films reviewed below vary in quality and interest, I am
sure that CounterPunch readers will find something worth seeing. The
price of a rental is generally lower than a physical theater ticket and
should encourage to take a chance on some off-beat and even entertaining
films, all of which open today.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/08/21/virtual-cinema-potpourri/
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