Martin Scorsese has described modern cinema as being “fragmented” in comparison to his earlier years. This comes from his Time interview from yesterday.
“It should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is being fragmented and broken up in a way,” Scorsese said.
The director says that many years ago, people would attend movie theatres just to experience something, not minding what was playing as much as just wanting to see a film, any film:
“Not everybody liked musicals […] Not everybody liked westerns. Not everybody liked gangster films or noirs. But at the time, we just went to the movies, and that’s what was playing.”
Later on in the interview, Scorsese comments on the struggles that young filmmakers face today against commercial pressures from studios and the artistic compromises that seem to be forced upon them:
“Young people expressing themselves with moving images, they’re going to find a way to be seen, but they have to fight, they have to really, really fight and not be co-opted.”
“Killers Of The Flower Moon” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It will have a theatrical worldwide release on October 20th.