What happened to European cinema?

It was alive, well and thriving even in the 70s.
It used to have giants like Fellini, Bergman, Godard, Hitchcock, Buñuel, Resnais, Antonioni, Visconthi, Pasolini, Tarkovsky, Bertolucci, Wim Wenders, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel, Andrzej Wajda etc.
It wass full of genre defining movements like German Expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New wave, Spaghetti Western, Giallo, Czechoslovak New Wave and so on.
Then it seemed everything started going down in the 80s and Hollywood took over.
Why?

There are new movement and new directors. Stop living in the past. European cinema is still doing well, it's just different.

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Movie companies dictate what you should and shouldn't watch so these independent productions don't stand a chance outside of their own market.

That's Hollywood.

Respectable people stopped going to the movies same way respectable people stopped going to the theatre half a century ago. It's all about them phones and computers now.

Yeah I know, there were some nice things, Dogme movement, Almodovar and Lars von Trier movies, some great films here and there like Amelie, The Life of Others, Blue Is the Warmest Color, actors like Mads Mikkelsen, commericial successes like Luc Besson movies, but ultimately it feels like Hollywood hasn't dominated every aspect of film like it does now.

Asian films became the new cinephile fashion in the 80s-90s continuing to today. This includes the Middle East.

They're not attractive in an investment point of view. Who would want to finance a movie that won't make at least twice the profit? Again, when was the last time people went see a movie just for sheer curiosity instead of falling for those big budget productions?

I bet 80% of movies in a random European cinema are American.

I have read scandals in Cannes used to be a big thing.

>ultimately it feels like Hollywood hasn't dominated every aspect of film like it does now
Because of marketing and blockbusters.

>born in wrong generation

Do you ever fuck yourself in your pretentious ass?

Well, this is how it is:

1) artsy fartsy directors who are getting massive money from the EU and government film funding bodies and do degenerate bullshit based on 1-2 movies that they ever did well 20 years ago (such as Noe, Trier etc)
2) a shitload of serious studios started emulating Hollywood and making action movies etc. in the late 90s, and they basically turned into coproduction studios for actual Hollywood movies, depending on the budget, you either make a coproduction with France or with Bulgaria, you get the point I think
3) the films funded locally are usually coproductions between groups of countries (ex-Yu countries for example don't have a proper independent cinematography, to get any money from the EU you have to cooperate), which leads to either stupid comedies understandable only to locals, or movies that push a specific EU-related agenda (such as negation of the war in the 90s, pushing for gay marriage etc.)
That's pretty much everything that's left I think, did I forget something?

Don't listen to this guy. He's full of shit and doesn't know anything.

It seems like you are simply out of touch. Do you even follow film festivals?

European culture died after the post-war generation.

Sometimes, obviously not that much, those were just a few subjective things I named that reached me.

They are all pretty old. Almodovar and von Trier are already considered "old masters".

Yeah, but they are post 70's directors, unlike those in the op.

It's still good, it's just painfully obscure unless it's Haneke or the other big names.

Everybody here was born a long time after old school greats were already popularised by critics. Modern critics are either irrelevant or hover around superhero movies like flies on shit.

the advance in techonology made euro cinema a bit less relevant than it was before. best actual films today come from aisa or the ME, but europe is still strong and besides the us, it's still no 2.

Hollywood happened. Eurokino couldn't compete with blockbuster budgets. The anglos simply integrated their movie industries with Americas and the continentals withered on the vine.

the popular classes weren't watching Godard and Buñuel in the 60es and 70es
normal cinemas have always been dominated by American cinema

>ME
I struggle to name any relevant film from ME in the past 20 years. Or like forever.

>who is kiarostami
>what is iranian cinema
hang yourself pleb

I didn't consider Iran Middle East. Iran is more like its own thing desu.

Competition from Hollywood.

Our movies only do well in our own countries. We're not India or China with a billion people so they get to make a lot more dosh.

And a lot of our film industries are government funded as a result, meaning some top bureaucrat gets to decide what movies to fund.
This means we mostly make artsy fartsy dramas, because that's what the average champagne socialist bourgeois old faggots who run our states find worthy.

there is also that palestinian guy who made a few good movies recently. but yeah, I guess it comes down to what you consider the ME

well there is still greek and turkish cinema. get a better test.

No one goes to the theaters like they once did.

Too many distractions.

Europe finally got over its pretentious intellectual phase. Good riddance

>Too many distractions.
like furry porn

The biggest "new" European movement is Romanian New Wave.

Sure.

If that shit in your pic is european cinema, I hope it had died. Stupid flick...

Is this true though? There wasn't Transformers back then and Europeans could produce Westerns just as good, if not beter then Americans.

Mario Bava is better than any of those faggots you mentioned

>tfw there will never another golden age of Italian Horror
why live

That tells a lot.

>Horror

I've never heard my dad mention watching anything other than American flicks in our local cinema
The only way to watch non-American / artsy stuff was in festivals and cinema clubs back then

there's horror, and then there's Bava

General lack of interest from the audience.
Because Europeans themselves don't care to watch their cinema.
Even American movies attract far less people than ever before.

I thought Bava was part of the Giallo movement.

>Even American movies attract far less people than ever before.
That's a good thing though.

Giallo is a genre, not a movement.

He invented the Giallo, but started out making Gothic Horror films.

It's not just Europe. It's America, too. Cinema just doesn't have the cultural cache it once did. Same thing as novels.

Media is too fragmented. Before you could read a book, go to the cinema, listen to music, and maybe go to a play. Now add television with a multitude of channels and video games. Before just PC and consoles but now smart phones.

Oh, and the internet. Probably the biggest gamechanger. How many kids would rather tweet/facebook/snapchat/instagram than sit through a movie that moves at a slow pace?

Critics are still fapping to slow cinema.

What medium/genre is in it's golden age RIGHT NOW?

I like you

Underground/Alternative Music, especially Alternative Country

Art film has become more elitist. Everyone knows about Bergman or Tarkovsky, but for example Pedro Costa, Albert Serra or even Bruno Dumont, while popular among cinephiles, are practically unknown for normal movie goers.

If anything it feels like British cinema is more visible in the US than ever before

Polish movie won last Oscar lad

>why aren't modern directors still earning their place in history not as visible as canonized filmmakers

I think you're just not putting the effort into seeking people out OP

You mean cachet. I only correct you because I get that wrong too.

Some of your comment seems right to me.

examples please?

fell asleep halfway through the webm

Tinker Tailor, Kings Speech, British prestige dramas are pretty popular

Nope, see Bud spencers success as an example

and the US entered their lowest intellectual phase. you happy?

Not really, I mostly watch classic Hollywood movies. Perfect balance of artistic merit and entertainment value

middle brow is best brow