We look at cinema in the year 2015 and note in particular:
- blockbusters / franchises / superhero films
- independent cinema / arthouse cinema
- Kodak 'saved' so past and present technologies co-exist (35 mm film stock)
- trends such as the advent of laser projection has helped to overcome some of the light-loss issues traditionally associated with stereoscopy.
- women filmmakers
- trends such as animation: more than any other area of movie-making, animation demonstrates perfectly how the old and the new, past and future, can coexist. Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep finding a firm foothold in the multiplexes, Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea taking inspiration from the hand-crafted 2D artistry of Ghibli , and Laika studios continuing to blur the line between the physical and the digital with scrungy delights like The Boxtrolls, it’s hard to remember a time when ancient skills and newfangled advances were so intertwined. Inside Out: a possible contender for best film 2016?
- trends such as simultaneous release (theatrical and Netflix) Beasts of No Nation
- for example, Ben Wheatley’s ground-breaking A Field in England, released simultaneously across a range of platforms (free-to-air TV, video-on-demand, DVD, cinemas) “enabling viewers to decide how, where and when to view the film”.
