There has never been so much information about cinema, but it has never been more comparable and accommodating
This year at the Venice Film Festival, the quality of the films is measured by the length of applause at the gala screening. Variety, the industry’s “bible,” has a journalist who, with a stopwatch in hand, notes the minutes in which the respectable claps their hands after attending the screening with the director and protagonists. Needless to say, out of courtesy, even the biggest bodrio is applauded at the ‘premieres’. Director Paul Schrader, who received the honorary Golden Lion, regrets that he can no longer drink in the Lido with experienced film critics because they did not come to the game or simply died.
Among us, Carlos Boyero, the one truly popular critic, will stop covering the impending San Sebastian Festival after decades of doing it for media like ‘El Mundo’ and ‘El País’. He will be there to present a documentary about his figure.
An era ends. There has never been so much information about cinema, but it has never been more comparable and accommodating. If you search the Internet for movie reviews, you’ll find the same thing on many web pages, with a few honorable exceptions. There is no longer any place for the “guru” in the press who, as the late José Luis Guarner, the best critic of the Spanish language, defined, tries to bring the director’s intentions closer to the viewer and show him how the audience receives his work.
Audiovisual bulimia, with a priceless number of premieres on platforms, doesn’t help either. Gone are the days when Vicente Aranda christened a shoe store ‘Fernández Santos’ into ‘Celos’ and took a position in ‘Melones Boyero’. It was the names of the critics who gave birth to his previous feature film, ‘The Look of the Other’.
Source: La Verdad
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