For the next 10 minutes or so, Godard, smoking his familiar cigar, meditates on this vexing, evergreen question with his characteristic intelligence, opacity and epigrammatic wit. The first director - and the other inspiration for Canby’s disquiet - was Jean-Luc Godard, who described Wenders’s project as an inquest on the future of films. Shot during the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, the movie consists of different directors alone in a hotel room where they respond to a question that Wenders had written on a piece of paper: “Is cinema a language that is about to get lost, an art that is about to die?”
The spark for his ruminations was “Room 666,” a documentary from Wim Wenders that had just opened in New York. In 1985, The New York Times’s longtime film critic Vincent Canby wrote an inspired, admirably cranky essay about the future of cinema.
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