I’m sure it will only serve the conservatives in the upcoming UK election.

Islamaphobic!

“Huh, I never heard of that one.”

Ok maybe, but when a certain group of people repeatedly threaten and demean you that’s bullying and pretty black and white. It’s real, it happens a lot, and adults look the other way using your exact point as an excuse.

This. That’s part of the “exception culturelle” set of rules. Many cultural products are granted a derogatory and protectionist set of regulations (re pricing, distribution, fiscality...). It’s not a free market. It did work, for the most part. France still enjoy a relatively robust domestic movie industry, a good…

Yeah. That’s actually how it works, they’re made for TV movies until you show them in a cinema. For example, Behind the Candelabra was a made for TV movie in the US so it wasn’t eligible for the Oscars, but in Europe it was shown in theaters and was allowed to show at Cannes.

If a movie only airs on Netflix and not in…

I’m wondering how it is that an article about the cinema industry became about French snobbery and how backwards it is? I’m talking about the comment section, not the article.

Why is it French snobbery when famous international (US) movie makers are cited in this article? This is a movie industry thing, not a French thing, smh.

Actually the French movie industry has never been better. Theater sales are on the rise.

I have to disagree. That’s like saying The Oscars are behind the times because they don’t allow films made for television.

I’m the same way but if it continues to happen I’ll usually pipe up a polite request for them to stop. My absolute favorite related story was when I took my Mom’s husband, who I find to normally be kind of a rude jerk, to go see a movie for his birthday. Texter reveals themselves in the row in front of us and he…

So, can people talk in the theater as well? “Please stop listening to my conversation and focus on the talking from the surround sound speakers all around you.”

We’re all missing the crucial piece which definitively makes you an asshole : why the fuck is your phone on? It’s not just rude (your argument is like sayubg, “I’m talking to one person loudly, but the movie is louder, so why are you paying attention to me yammering like a garbage person and gabbing in the place…

I can guarantee that nothing you will ever do in your life is so important that it can’t wait 90 minutes. If you are in the midst of a crisis you can stay the fuck home.

Yes, he is a jerk. Yes, she is a crappy human.

I know it’s not an “emergency” becuase you’re still in the fucking theater. You’re phone is a giant blinding light flickering.. it’s not about staring at your selfish ass. I didn’t pay good money to watch people yank out their phones every minute and a half

There is a place for people like her...

Oh god. This is the best book. So happy this has FINALLY made it onto a screen. I remember sitting up late one night reading the book and I got to one part and got so freaked out I closed the book and turn on infomercials (do they still exist?).