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What do you think about the 2017 Netflix Cannes controversy?

Netflix movies are legimiate works of art that should be considered as such and there is no reason to disregard them in a film festival.
14 (77.8%)
Movies that get no theater releases have no reason to feature in a film festival.
1 (5.6%)
I am a spineless mollusk who has no opinions about things.
3 (16.7%)

Total Members Voted: 18

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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2017, 10:03:18 AM »
Whatever they want them to be, it's their festival.

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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2017, 12:23:31 PM »
DH, I will try to remember that with your threads you want the conversations on point.  I can't promise to, though, because that's not how the forum usually works.
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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2017, 12:48:36 PM »
Zank you. I zink vee vould oll benefit from morre orderr in dieses forum.
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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2017, 04:02:32 PM »
I guess I'm a spineless mollusk because it's more complicated than that.

I disagree with DH, the question is an existential one for the art form: is it still cinema if it doesn't happen in a cinema ? I'm.... not sure.

Then there's the media chronology aspect (the French law), which opens a whole other can of worms, but ultimately that's just an extension of that problem. The reason people don't want to make arrangments for NEtflix is that they fear it'd be the death of the theater (especially the arthouse theater), which only matters if your answer to the above question is no.
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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2017, 03:10:59 AM »
If the definition of the cinema art form includes the cinema place, then you're invalidating every movie experience you've had at home. I will instantly grant you that my watching Lawrence of Arabia on a giant screen was an unfathomably superior experience to my originally watching it on my laptop, but I had still experienced the movie that first time, the essence of it was not altered by my tiny, imperfect screen. The « is it still cinema if it doesn't happen in a cinema » phrasing is misleading because we came to use the word cinema to mean the art form at a time when the only way to watch movies was in a cinema, or at least, in a projection room.
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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2017, 06:14:46 PM »
DH, I've got to say it's very disappointing that you didn't title this poll Netflix Cannes-troversy, especially considering the choices in your other Cannes polls.

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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2017, 08:45:05 PM »
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Re: Netflix Cannes Controversy
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2017, 04:41:53 AM »
DH, I've got to say it's very disappointing that you didn't title this poll Netflix Cannes-troversy, especially considering the choices in your other Cannes polls.

Oh. My. God.

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