If you want to make your exam answer really up to date on
Thursday, include this article: http://theday.co.uk/arts/cannes-film-festival-goes-to-war-with-netflix
Basically, it’s saying that the very famous Cannes Film
Festival (on this week) is showing two Netflix films, but the Festival
organisers have decided that from next year, only films that have been shown in
actual cinemas will be eligible for the festival.
This means that Netflix will have to arrange for its films
to be shown in the cinema, too, in order to enter the competition. There’s a
huge debate amongst filmmakers about the advent of digital platforms, many of
them believing that the ‘big screen’ cinema is the place where films are
‘meant’ to be shown.
What do you think? Is it ‘better’ for us as audiences to see
films on the big screen, or are we happy to watch them at home on a device? Is
it just as good an experience?
