Alejandro González Iñárritu is weighing in on the state of cinema amid the streaming era.The “Bardo” director called out criticisms that movies are diluted based on viewing platforms, adding that films by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard or Federico Fellini still succeed on a small screen.“What I’m concerned about is less the technology, and the ways that people are watching cinema, but that there’s a dictatorship of ideas behind that.
It’s about the movies that are being made to please that media,” Iñárritu told Deadline while in conversation with fellow directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
“If you watch a Fellini or a Godard movie on your computer, it’s still a great movie.
It doesn’t change the power of the idea.
But I think the ideas are being reduced to computer size in terms of ideology, and I think everybody is participating in that.
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