The academics are running the asylum.
On her way out at Spout, Karina Longworth noted a few days ago that the film blogosphere can feel like "hundreds of traffic-chasers, who are essentially blaring the same thing, at the same time, all day long." She doesn't like it one bit. And such was the attitude Focus Features CEO/Ang Lee's screenwriter James Schamus brought to his keynote speech at the London Film Festival. Noting he preferred to skip the usual topics of "the challenges of our digital future, new distribution models, the threat of piracy, etc. etc.," Schamus proceeded to deliver a solid hour of political deconstructionist theory about his wife, steeped in Derrida, entitled "My Wife is a Terrorist: Lessons in Storytelling from the Department of Homeland Security." This is a pretty outré thing to do at a film festival, where hushed vagaries on cross-platforming and (yes!) Our Digital Future are the order of the day. It's...
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