(ANSA) - NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18 - Martin Scorsese attacks the 'new' business of cinema talking about Federico Fellini.
In a long essay on Harper's Magazine, the American director uses the icon of Italian cinema to affirm how the magic of cinema is being lost with the onslaught of streaming services.
Scorsese acknowledges that he too has benefited from streaming, as without Netflix there would have been no 'The Irishman', and without Apple there would be no 'Killers of the Flower Moon', however, writes that "the art of cinema is systematically devalued, set aside, diminished and reduced to its lowest common denominator by the conceptualization of films as content ".
"No more than 15 years ago", says Scorsese, "the term 'content' was only used by people who discussed cinema at a serious level, relating it and measuring it in relation to form", ie the visual solutions used to represent a certain content. .
Then, "gradually, it has been used more and more by the people who have taken over the media company, many of whom do not know the history of cinema as an art form, and do not even bother to know it".
"'Content' - he continues - has become a commercial term applied to every moving image: a movie by David Lean, a video with cats, a Super Bowl commercial, the sequel of a superhero movie, an episode of a TV series.
Obviously linked not to the experience in a theater but to viewing from home, on the streaming platforms that have come to surpass the cinema experience, just as Amazon has surpassed physical stores ".
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