No one told him about the travel-size section?

At the same time, AI companies like this, while pretending they are acting in the interest of Welles’s legacy, have no actual interest in artists’ rights. They have nothing to say about whether filmmakers today should or should not be treated the way RKO treated Welles by cutting his movie.

The heirs of artistic legacies will do anything not to work and to keep the money rolling in. That is not new. Which is why this kind of thing should be stopped, so as not to tempt them.

This is worse than the Sphere Oz. The inhuman, raising-the-dead aspect here is repellent in a more troubling way. Everything with the AI people’s desecration of cinema makes you wonder about their broken brains.

This is so outrageously misguided, and the THR article is error-riddled. Even the headline is backwards. Can’t wait for their servers to melt down when they try this with Greed.

Oh no, she was so great!

I’ve been thinking about this film too!

But using commercial streaming services is even worse.

I lectured a class at a CUNY school in which all the films available to show in classes were stored locally on the school’s server. It was an absurd system.

I don’t understand. So how are you supposed to show films in your classes?

It’s in there.

Yes, film critics for major publications never spout nonsense today.