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andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2007-12-21 10:51 pm
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Caro in space

City of Lost Children, Delicatessen... now a weird sci-fi called Dante 01.  Could be one to watch in the new year!

[identity profile] shifty-176.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That's never going to make it onto the big screen up here. It's not even listed in the Cornerhouse 'coming up' pages, it'll never make the Odeon.
Sheesh. Another 6 months for the DVD to come out, then.

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's forrin. We'll be lucky to see it too. *pout*

Wasn't digital film distribution supposed to dramatically change the way small-release stuff got out, letting the peasant masses nibble at quality sometimes?

[identity profile] shifty-176.livejournal.com 2007-12-25 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yebbut, this is cosmopolitan-centre-of-the-Multiverse Manchester, not hicksville-pointy-head Devon (ahem). I expect to be able to flounce into the centre of town and watch pretty much anything, especially since the Cornerhouse came into being in the 80's: Hell, that's why it opened.

Peasant masses nibbling at quality costs money dear boy. Digital distribution? That depends on your local fleapit having the means to show it (money), otherwise they're trying to shoehorn it into a marketing method like iTunes. Are you seriously going to pay for sub-DVD quality, DRM'd-to-buggery? no, you're going to rip it like everyone else. That's why it's not happening. Merry Christmas.