Most journalists today work for the film industry and not as a sort of mirror of the industry. And that phenomenon has struck the French as well.
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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.Wim Wenders
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
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But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
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It's what people all over the world are concerned with -- the disintegration of the family.
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I really wanted the film to be shown in the US because Cuba, for a huge section of the American public, has been eradicated from view.
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Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.
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