Monopoly capitalism breeds monoculture. Witness the selection of films playing in your home town. As of this moment, it should be ridiculously easy to see Goldmember or even Blue Crush, but difficult indeed to see Bananas by Woody Allen or Je ne m'aime plus directed by Serge Gainsbourg.
But in this age where it is easy enough to download Godlmember (I liked it), it remains difficult to download Aerograd, for example.
Witness here the selection of films showing in New York at this moment, from Yahoo's registry.
Now compare that to what's showing in Paris. You can see le Spider-Man, but you can also see Mulholland Drive and a termite documentary.
Posted by amol at August 16, 2002 10:18 AM