by Michele Diomà

The series eleveN fiftY originates from one question:

“How is Cinema doing?”

Is what is being produced by the audiovisual multinationals and distributed on platforms still Cinema?

George Orwell once said: “A day will come when WAR will be called PEACE and FREEDOM will be called SLAVERY.”

Words can be the most powerful tool for bluffing.

So, if someone starts calling CINEMA what is actually a mix of propaganda and marketing, those who have seen the films of Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, François Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Sidney Lumet, etc., could defend themselves against such a LIE.

But how many people have actually seen the films of these great directors?

We live in a cinematic era where Francis Ford Coppola, the director who created the most brilliant saga in the history of American cinema, The Godfather, the most remarkable pacifist work of art, Apocalypse Now, and more recently the greatest independent film in the history of cinema, Megalopolis, is awarded the Razzie Award for Worst Director of the Year.

Therefore, there are two answers to the initial question of this editorial, “How is Cinema doing?”

First answer: The film industry has fallen into the hands of someone who hates Cinema and wants to destroy it.

Second answer: What is called Cinema today is not really Cinema.

Solution?

A GREAT RESET!

The first episode of our series “eleveN fiftY” is the first step!

You can watch it for free at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqeY7Ts-q0o