--Vincent Porter worrying about the future of European co-productions in 1985, quoted here.
All things considered, the prospect of plenty of Euroschlock isn't so bad at all--and is it always so anonymous, so impossible to see rooted to specific nations, particular regions, specified collective interests or desires? The Euro co-production does represent one of the toughest puzzles but I suspect one can sort out the sediments given the time, tools, and inclination ...
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What´s funny about this quotation is that the kind of film he evokes - bad dubbing aside - could well describe most of the ´internationalist´ border-crossing films of Assayas, Claire Denis, Winterbottom ... et al. I just happened to read some other critical texts from the ´80s recently which expressed such contempt for films which "don´t speak to their indigenous audience" - even something like Hou´s JOURNEY OF THE RED BALLOON would have been a nightamre to these commentators, if they could have seen it in a crystal ball in 1985!
You might start a revival.
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