WFF: Best Week for Movie Geeks

By Feet Banks
It was well over 20 years ago when a brash, young filmmaker named Quentin Tarantino complained that he couldn’t understand why the American public would happily watch a 3.5-hour football game but scoff at a three-hour movie. Well times have changed (partially in thanks to Tarantino’s skill at forcing extended narratives on us—Kill Bill was 4:20 told in two parts, Django Unchained, 2:40, The Hateful Eight, 3:07) but the major paradigm shift was streaming—quality, episodic stories to binge on is a new drug that will lure viewers to their massive televisions for hours (days) at a time.…

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December 7, 2019

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