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Room 666 (1982)

It is funny to watch this more than 40 years later and see both how much has changed and how little. The setup is perfectly simple, with Wim Wenders placing a static camera in a hotel room and then let various filmmakers answer some questions he has given them on paper. They speculate and worry about the future of movies, how TV and video is going to change everything, and that film as they know it is dead. In many ways, their words are replicated 1:1 by various film aficionados today - and I could probably include myself in that as well to an extent. At the end of the day, it is still pretty clear that cinema and film is going to survive, but as the optimistic ones also say here - they would just have to adapt.


Rating: 3.5

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