Guillermo del Toro, Michel Hazanavicius, Paolo Sorrentino & More On Feeble State Of Cinema In Face Of Streaming – Cannes
deadline.comTwo-time Oscar winner and former Un Certain Regard Jury President Guillermo del Toro kicked off a filmmaker symposium at Cannes today, discussing the future of cinema, particularly as it’s been rattled by the pandemic.The participants at today’s festival conference was a complete surprise, including del Toro, who was joined by Final Cut filmmaker and The Artist Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius, Costa-Gravas, Claude Lelouch, Gasper Noe, and The Great Beauty Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, and more.Without specifically using hard industry terms like theatrical day-and-date or window crunching, del Toro spoke about all those themes surrounding the battle between streaming and cinema and which bucket movies go into.Quipped Hazanavicius toward the latter part of the panel, “It’s comforting to talk about the death of cinema.”“We shouldn’t enshrine the past and try to preserve, it’s not going to hold,” advised del Toro, “the future will present itself, whether we want it or not.”“The level of dialogue and the old structure isn’t sustainable,” added the filmmaker whose Nightmare Alley wasn’t platformed over the year-end holidays last year like some of his previous movies, i.e.
Oscar winner The Shape of Water; Covid having crimped the specialty business during Q4 2021.“It took a pandemic to shake it all up,” said del Toro about how the media business changed, “we survived that pandemic: we had food, medicine and stories.”“Three things that sustained us for months and years,” he continued.Essentially, on the entire panel’s mind, the streaming boom has eroded the cultural significance of cinema.The disappearance of physical media, per del Toro, has forced entertainment conglomerates to curate what we watch.
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