Important message for Film Fans !!!!!!
I have just read something profound, something I have been saying in a round about way for years and feel very strongly about.
I read it in Empire Magazine in an essay by Director Christopher McQuarrie.
He says......
"Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese have made it their mission to preserve classic films. Christopher Nolan has made it his mission to save the physical medium of film stock itself. But whose mission is it to preserve what is arguably the most vital aspect of every classic film - the one thing they all have in common regardless of genre, tone, era or country of origin? Who will curate the one precious resource any classic film needs to justify its very own existence?
Who will preserve the audience? "
So next time to roll your eyes at me for mentioning a black and white film that you've just got to see. Stop !!!!
And remember I'm doing something very important......I'm preserving the audience of classic films.
So film fans get to work on all your friends who have never had the experience of watching Citizen Kane, of being transported to Casablanca or searched for gold with Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierre Madre.
We are the ones who can pass on these great classics and make sure they continue to be seen through the ages. Get busy people :D
