LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 — The growth of streaming and binge-watching during the pandemic have switched more audiences onto foreign cinema, veteran director Michael Mann said yesterday at the launch of Hollywood’s French film festival. Heat and The Last of the Mohicans director Mann was speaking at...
LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 — The growth of streaming and binge-watching during the pandemic have switched more audiences onto foreign cinema, veteran director Michael Mann said yesterday at the launch of Hollywood’s French film festival.director Mann was speaking at the 25th anniversary opening night of COLCOA, which celebrates French movies in Los Angeles, but was cancelled last year due to Covid-19.
This year’s edition is somewhat scaled back, in part as a ban on European travelers imposed at the start of the pandemic remains in place until next week. But COLCOA still boasts a field of 55 movies and series designed to showcase the best in Gallic cinema., in which Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche — alongside a largely non-professional cast — goes undercover to expose the insecurity of the gig economy.
“I think the combination of streaming and Covid, where people spend so much time watching video on-demand and streaming, has opened up the whole world of cinema in a really terrific way,” Mann told AFP on the red carpet.became Netflix’s third most-watched season.
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