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Cinema: Ken Loach "Only small theaters will survive"

2020-12-16T16:34:35.829Z


"I've been in lockdown for almost a year, I feel like an old rusty car parked in the garage that doesn't know if it will be able to start again. (ANSA)


(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 16 - "I have been in lockdown for almost a year, I feel like an old rusty car stopped in the garage that no longer knows if it will be able to start again. I am of a certain age and I don't know if I will energy to make another film, even if Paul Laverty, my screenwriter who is younger and full of ideas, always spurs me on ".

Thus Ken Loach in remote connection with Gian Luca Farinelli, director of the Cineteca di Bologna who presented the review dedicated to him available on Miocinema.

"Those who love cinema not as a commercial product, but as a means of communication, will return to theaters, but only small theaters will survive - he explained - just as theater survived the advent of television.


   Different for large multiplexes in which only Blockbusters are projected, which are now distributed in streaming.


   They will have more problems.

The boys see the Blockbusters also on their mobile phones and then in the house there are now giant screens where you can see everything in great quality. "Two Palme d'Or, Leone and Bear for Lifetime Achievement, Leopard of Honor of Locarno and Lifetime Achievement Award at the EFA, Loach , 84, has always told the simple agent, the proletariat. "I have always loved the stories of everyday life because they are the stories of most of us, of people who work to have a home to educate their children," he said. to the choice of actors, often non-professionals: "You have to put them at ease.

I also for this round in sequence, from the first to the last scene, and this makes everything easier.

All the actors are the same for me, there are no prima donnas who go to pick up with the driver.

Even technology must not be warned, no lights in the face so my normality is recreated on the set. "Among the titles proposed by Miocinema: Land and freedom, Sweet Sixteen, The wind that caresses the grass (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2006) , My friend Eric, The part of angels and I, DanielBlake (Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival). (ANSA).


Source: ansa

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