“ONE THING I MISS IS THE TIME AMERICA HAD BIG DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE" -ANDY WARHOL

As with all old media, the movie business is in decline. This is partly because of the fast-growing popularity of competing new-media “platforms” like online entertainment and video games, and partly because the disintegration of America’s common culture has led to the shrinking of the market for the big-budget, mass-audience films that have always been Hollywood’s stock in trade. The decline may not be as steep as in the music business, but it is worrisome enough—and it is exacerbated by something less tangible than receipts. This is the growing feeling that American filmmakers have lost their collective touch: that they are no longer capable of making movies that large numbers of adults want to see.

-Commentary
Oct 2008