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Kristen Stewart at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival on February 18, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. REUTERS/Nadja Wohlleben.
Kristen Stewart reflects on the future of movies at the ongoing Berlin Film Festival.
Over the years, there has been constant talk about the future of movies – which we’ve all loved. Seeing them as we do with strangers in dark auditoriums. When television came to America in the late 1950s, theater owners panicked. Will the small box kill the charm of the big screen? A lovely film by Quentin Tarantino was made on this – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Here, the director, who never ceases to surprise and shock me, portrays the dilemma cinema faces with the advent of television.
The film is set in late 1960s Hollywood when he was growing up there. The film arrived at Cannes 2019 at the last minute. We are led to believe that the Golden Age of Hollywood ended the night Sharon Tate (Roman Polanski) was brutally murdered. It tells us how with the help of anecdotes centered on him and other characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. Call it a tribute to Hollywood or a tribute to it.
Actress Kristen Stewart, who is presiding over the ongoing Berlin Film Festival, told a press conference in a manner characteristic of Tarantino that she does not believe that movies are dead. He declared, “Cinema will live forever. Take a look in your rearview mirror, we never stopped telling each other stories. He then mentioned headlines about weak international box office receipts as a result of the pandemic.
“How much it cost, obviously like we’re drifting toward oblivion on that. But I also think there’s a kind of vital, desperate need in all of us to create something. And yes, I think when When you start to really sort of fix the industry, it’s easy to be like, ‘Oh my god, this is all falling apart!’ But I just think that something important that is undeniable will never go away,” she added.
Stewart first attended the Berlinale in 2010 at the height of her “Twilight” fame with the independent production “Welcome to the Rileys” with director Jake Scott.
Other members of the jury included actress Golshifteh Farahani (Iran/France), director and writer Valeska Griesbach (Germany), director and screenwriter Radu Jude (Romania), casting director and producer Francine Maisler (USA), director and screenwriter Carla Simone Are. Spain), and director and producer Johnny To (Hong Kong, China).
The festival started on 16 February.
(Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not of the organization.)
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