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After 15 long years powered by Blogger and hosted by Blogspot, the OFU blog will be moving shortly to a new location. Please come by and visit us at https://ofu.org.uk/ where we will continue to provide irregular commentary on filmmaking, exhibition, and our increasingly hazy university memories. (And - do get in touch if you'd like to contribute. We'd be very happy to have more than one update a year!)

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Can Christopher Nolan save cinema ... again?

The Atlantic argues, compellingly, that Christopher Nolan has "saved cinema" once before by insisting on Inception being shot on film; and with his new film, Tenet, may be about to save the very notion of cinema-going itself.

Nolan has publicly shouldered the same intense responsibility that he took on after the release of Inception. This time, the issue isn’t the future of celluloid—rather, it’s the future of cinemas following months of lost grosses, and months more of diminished ticket sales even when theaters reopen, due to likely capacity reductions.

Coronavirus innovation, twenty years later

In the year 2000 ...

In the year 2020 ...

Pictures from "WindowFlick" photo essay, The Guardian