“Each little experience I had contributed to the movies I love today as an adult.”

Watching movies with people, getting physical copies of movies at stories — all “real, authentic, and human”

TV initially siphoned away revenue and attention from movies from their peak in 1946, but later made-for-TV movies in ’70s and ’80s eventized their cultural impact

Rise of HBO and VHS/Betamax

Ticket sales steady from late ’70s to early 2000s

Collapse of release window for Blu-rays

“Ticket sales are down, prices are higher than ever, movie theaters are closing, algorithms run your daily life, and movies just don’t feel the same as they used to.”

Streaming revolution, IP sprawl

“Convenience is no longer a winning formula” for big chain theaters

A24 and Neon take smart risks and don’t have inflated budgets 

Part 1 a brief history of movies and how we watch them, Part 2 on the algorithms and streaming revolution, Part 3 how to watch movies outside the algorithm and adapt to the future

“People born in the 2000s or 2010s have grown up in a world where video video stores don’t exist” and are locked into algorithms 

Streaming as SaaS – “They host a cloud-based software service that charges a monthly subscription fee. Whether you are word processing, editing a photo, or watching a movie, it is all the same on the backend. 

Tips: physical media, indie theaters, put social media to work for you, Letterboxd lists, Reddit, movie club, talk to people