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The Pixar Perspective on the Death of Cinema

May 7, 2013 by Josh Spiegel 1 Comment

The Pixar Perspective on the Death of Cinema

Depending on who you listen to, cinema is dying. Or cinema is dead. Pining for the fjords, or soon to be buried, don’t forget: the medium of film is in serious trouble. Recently, director Steven Soderbergh—who’s been very public about retiring for the last couple of years, and is finally heading out after his HBO biopic about Liberace premieres later this month—gave an address at the San Francisco International Film Festival, holding court for nearly an hour on how the difference between cinema and movies has opened an immense and irreparable divide between art and commerce, one that few filmmakers can bridge. Over the weekend, this video was posted around the Internet; in it, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle categorized the problem he saw with mainstream cinema as being the “Pixarification” of films.

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Andrew Stanton, animation, Brad Bird, Danny Boyle, Emeryville, family friendly, Martin Scorsese, Pete Docter, Pixar, Ratatouille, Trance, Up

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