Thinking about cinema on the 128th anniversary of its birth. The so-called Seventh art has historically renewed itself every decade or so. Origins in 1895, narrative in the 1910s, sound in 1929, color trickling in in the '40s, 3D and Cinescope (et, al) in the '50s, New Hollywood formally burying the studio system in the late '60s and '70s (further countered in the late 70's by Blockbusters, ironically ushered in by those same New Hollywood directors), video in the '80s, then digital and CGI in the early '90s (countered by a little blip of Indie film in the mid-decade).
With no real innovations since, little wonder the product has grown so shoddy.
On the turntable: The Shadows, "Life Story."
On the nighttable: Stephen Teo, "Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time"
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