Small, intimate indies

[SBdeb]

A great read from yesterday:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...302-story.html

"And, of course, the system perpetuates itself. The more of these smaller, hard-nosed films win, the more get made. (The luckiest person in town Monday morning was the producer trying to get funding for a tender and subtle drama.) And the more that get made, the deeper the pool; the deeper the pool, the more likely they are to win best picture in future years."

Thoughts? Agree? Disagree?

[JoeBanks]

Re: Small, intimate indies

A great read from yesterday:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...302-story.html

"And, of course, the system perpetuates itself. The more of these smaller, hard-nosed films win, the more get made. (The luckiest person in town Monday morning was the producer trying to get funding for a tender and subtle drama.) And the more that get made, the deeper the pool; the deeper the pool, the more likely they are to win best picture in future years."

Thoughts? Agree? Disagree?

less to do with the subject matter of the indie movies cited than with the Academy's move to preferential balloting for best picture. dividing the #1 votes between two or three commercially successful frontrunners allows for a smaller but more passionately lobbied movie like Moonlight to win with more #2 or #3 preference votes