canceled altogether, while this month’s New York Film Festival will mix mostly online viewing with a few outdoor screenings in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.
Only Venice has been totally brick-and-mortar.The pandemic has taught us a few things: For starters, more straight-to-digital releases from major studios will come in the future and many of us will work from home indefinitely.
However, the main lesson to take from TIFF 2020 is that film festivals need to resume being in-person experiences ASAP.“What’s the big deal?,” you ask. “These days, we watch most movies from our couch.”For the past seven months, so have movie critics, and it’s been OK.
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