David Lynch: “It seems like the art-house has gone to cable.”
David Lynch is saying what many cineastes have been saying, well, since Lynch directed his last film: Cinema as we know it is dead. The list of television shows and movies that are better than anything you’ll see in a cinema goes on and on (Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, just to name two). Now, Lynch has joined Spielberg and Lucas in opening up about the dire state of cinema.
In an interview in the Independent, Lynch opened up about the current state of cinema and why he hasn’t directed a movie in seven years:
“It’s a very depressing picture. With alternative cinema – any sort of cinema that isn’t mainstream – you’re fresh out of luck in terms of getting theatre space and having people come to see it. Even if I had a big idea, the world is different now. Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you’d call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don’t know what my future is. I don’t have a clue what I’m going to be able to do in the world of cinema.”
He added:
“I like the idea of a continuing story,” he says. “And television is way more interesting than cinema now. It seems like the art-house has gone to cable.”
He’s write, of course, as we’ve all been reminded with the death of The Sopranos star James Gandolfini earlier this week. The Sopranos did for television what Bonnie and Clyde did for cinema in the late-1960s. Martin Scorsese, Gus Van Sant, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, and a number of other auteurs have made the jump to TV in recent years. Hopefully, David Lynch will be able to join those big names soon.
Source: Awards Daily
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