So naturally MEGALOPOLIS isn’t being screened anywhere near me. That’s a film I would have liked to see on a big screen. I haven’t seen a film in a big screen in probably five years. This is how home viewing gets normalised, I guess. Maybe MUBI will buy it for streaming. I wish I had a big screen tv, too. But this is also, I suppose, how the idea of common culture gets chipped away at. it’s already dead for television. The relentless niche-ing of television. Which Netflix eventually stepped away from – I remember either Sarandos or Hastings saying that Netflix would be the home of everyone’s favourite show, no matter how small or niche. Which was admirable in many ways, and I think probably created the space for a lot of great work. But I come from a time and place where national terrestrial tv had a lot of weird shit on it too, and it entered the mainstream of cultural conversation.

Random thought prompted by an article I read where Ted Sarandos said streaming was the natural home and model for $200 million dollar films. When an Odeon multiplex can’t find a screen for MEGALOPOLIS, you wonder if cinema isn’t doing that to itself.