Richard Linklater made his first film in 1985 and since then He has lived the evolution of Hollywood from the age of 25 to his current 63, a whole life dedicated to cinema. However, it seems that in recent times not very happy with the way this looks and feels. In fact, he believes that the last good era for making films has passed, and now only the remains remain.
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According to what he told The Hollywood Reporter after the presentation of ‘Hit Man’ in Venice, he believes that perhaps “the last good era for filmmaking” has taken a knee before the content decided by the algorithm. And, although it may sound ominous, frankly, it is not so far off the mark.
I feel like it’s gone with the wind, or rather with the algorithm. Sometimes I talk to some of my contemporaries that I worked with during the ’90s and we say “We could never have done that now.” On the one hand, selfishly, you think, “I guess I was born in the right era. I was able to participate in what I always feel was the last good era of filmmaking.” And then you wait for a better day to come.
During the interview, he also asks other interesting questions: “Is there a new generation that really values cinema? That is the darkest thought. I have a film club and there are many young kids who love the medium who have the Criterion Channel and watch all kinds of wonderful films. But I know that, culturally, it is an exception. I am afraid that there will not be a critical mass in the future large enough to sustain the industry. But who knows? I don’t think I have a deeper analysis than other people, and I don’t usually judge whether it’s all over or not. I just think we are bailing water and hoping not to sink. The most challenging times have arrived.”
Of course, it faces two realities: that of films considered “content” (something that sooner or later, I add, we will all regret) and the change in distribution that has damaged a certain type of cinema. “It is difficult to imagine indie cinema having the cultural relevance that it had. “It’s hard to imagine the cultural world agreeing on anything, much less filmmaking.”
The director, in addition to ‘Hit Man’, continues filming ‘Merrily we roll along’, a musical that began in 2019 and aims to finish twenty years later. For him, cinema is experimentation, and that is why the state of current culture hurts him so much. “A lot of smart, passionate, good people just You don’t need literature and movies. They do not occupy the same space in the brain. I think we have given our lives to this thing that exhausts the need to fill us with meaning through art and fictional worlds. That need has been filled with, let’s face it, advanced ad delivery systems. It’s sad, but what can you do?”
At least it ends with a little hope so that we don’t all start crying waiting for the future. “You have to believe that everything can change and that things can be a little better again.. Isn’t that what we want? Can’t we get back to being a little better?” We’ll have to see.
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