The famous English director, in an interview for the BBC show Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, explained his sad point of view.
Sam Mendes is a name that is hard not to know, given his incredible film career that has built over time. The filmmaker from Reading, in the county of Berkshire, made his big screen debut in 1999 with American Beauty, which saw him triumph in 5 categories at the Oscars, specifically Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Kevin Bacon, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. A decidedly high-sounding artistic launch that was however only the beginning of a crackling cinematic life that saw him direct other incredible titles such as Road to Perdition (2002), Revolutionary Road (2008), Skyfall (2012), Specter (2015) and many more.
Sam Mendes debuted the alluring American Beauty
While we await Sam Mendes' latest title on the big screen, i.e. Empire of Light, here in a recent intervention for the BBC show Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (as reported by ANSA), the film-maker let himself go to some very demeaning statements about the cinematic experience in the hall. In other words, he explained that the great era of the cinema is slowly fading away and that a large part of his production, probably, if it had come out today, would have ended up directly in streaming. Below are his words in detail.
The twentieth century, the great age of cinemas, of the great form of entertainment, going to the cinema, is dying. About my movies, I think American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, American Life-Away We Go, these would all be streaming today and that makes me sad. Sam Mendes then added that currently, medium-budget titles go directly to streaming without going to the big screen and that it is a fact that filmmakers must accept this new form of use since it is inevitable. In short, a very lucid reasoning which however sounds like a sad and lapidary farewell to the seventh art, at least as we have always considered it.
Source: ANSA