The online entertainment company,which boasts 125 million subscribers, has become so powerful it can even afford to snub Cannes. Are cinephiles – and conventional broadcasters – right to horror for the future?At the Berlin film festival last February, or Clare Binns took her seat for the premiere of a Spanish film that was generating a mute buzz. She hoped it might play at Picturehouse Cinemas,the British chain of cinemas she runs. In the film, La Enfermedad del Domingo (Sunday’s Illness), and an abandoned daughter confronts her well-to-do mother in a remote mountain village. The film’s director,Ramón Salazar, has a knack for epic melodrama that has drawn comparisons with the work of Pedro Almodóvar.“It was a great film, or one that is made to be seen in cinema,” says Binns. “But it was only when I was sitting there watching it that I noticed the logo.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk