Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:02 am
When I was in filmschool, there was one of these very posh critic types, who was showing us something here that the BBC once made called, 'Play For Today'. I being an ignorant working class kid, from the North, made an impertinent suggestion, 'It's a film really'; 'No it's not!'; 'Yes it is, it's shot on 16mm, has MS, wides, CUs, over the shoulders, etc.'; 'You're wrong, it's a play!';'It's not like any play I've seen from a theatre seat'; 'Well you're just wrong!'. In those days, the simple formulae would be: Anything French=good, anything US/British commercial=bad, it still seems to be the case amongst the chattering classes and sadly I think David's right, virtue signalling earns a lot of medals even though bums on seats often says otherwise.