Chuck Marra

“Is the film industry dying?” “Is cinema dead?” “Is Hollywood over?”I don’t think so. What I think is that, when we need to sell tickets to everybody and use algorithms to shape movie-making, we end up with a flood of movies that are all very much the same. And when experiences are more or less the same, they lose not just their appeal but their attractiveness. When it’s all the same, they all fade. When we focus only on the bottom line at the end of each quarter, we get not black or white,...

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson, French Philosopher 1859 -1941 When you see that very famous blue box from Tiffany's, you are pretty sure that there will be something impressive within it.   Now take that same impressive present and put in it another box, not bright blue, but any other color and perhaps the box is dented in some way.  What if I put an ordinary piece of costume jewelry in the blue box, and the priceless gem in the other box. Perhaps...

How Indie Filmmakers Are Reinventing Genre Movies There's something stirring in the shadows this October: a renaissance of independent filmmaking that's breathing new life into genre cinema. As autumn leaves fall and Halloween approaches, we find ourselves in the midst of what might be the most innovative period for indie horror and genre films in decades. But perhaps more fascinating than the films themselves is what they reveal about our collective psyche during these uncertain times. The...