> Indeed it baffles me a little that we're not experiencing a renaissance in films, what with cameras and lights being cheaper than ever. Heck, Truffaut famousl

> Indeed it baffles me a little that we're not experiencing a renaissance in films, what with cameras and lights being cheaper than ever. Heck, Truffaut famously argued in the Cahiers du Cinema that you could make a film for a lot less and that was in the 50's. Why not now? We are. You are just not watching them. Indepent cinema is booming. They have never been as many festivals and the quality of what they screen has never been higher. If you start looking at world cinema it's even more impressive. Nigeria now has the third largest cinema industry in the world. The issue is not production but distribution. Good movies are made. They are just not marketed. Meanwhile, people are mostly offered American blockbusters which are at an all time low quality wise.