This article was written by Manohla Dargis.

“How much our world of moving-image entertainment has changed in the past decade! We now live in a world of the 24-Hour Movie, one that plays anytime and anywhere you want (and sometimes whether you want it to or not).

It’s a movie we can access at home by pressing a few buttons on the remote (and agreeing to pay more for it than you might at the local video store) or with a few clicks of the mouse. The 24-Hour Movie now streams instead of unspools, filling our screens with images that, more and more, have been created algorithmically rather than photographically.”

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This article was written by David Theis.

“Time and technology march on. About 100 years ago, the movies came along to kill the novel, the theater, the opera and almost every other art form besides popular music, which itself killed the symphony.

So now it’s time for the cinema’s dirt nap. The movies are dead—long live the tweet.

By dead, of course, I really mean completely fractured. Good and great films are still produced, but mostly outside the United States (I just Googled “death of American independent film” and got more than 21 million hits.) The major studios have shed or radically downsized their quasi-independent arms, as in the case of Disney’s gutting of Miramax. Artistically ambitious directors here generally have to sneak their quality in through the camouflage of a Batman or a Bourne film.”

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“James Cameron reminded us today at Comic-Con that he’s the same twisted guy who wrote Terminator. Back from his deep-sea expedition documentaries, Cameron talked about his upcoming film Avatar, a 3D epic that could be the sci-fi auteur’s answer to Star Wars, albeit with the level of darkness his fans have grown accustomed to.”

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