Movies Have Been Dead: 10 of Cinema's Last Gasps

That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even think of denying today. To do the current round of think piece writers one better, we will add that not only are the movies dead, but they also died in the cradle, and they’ve only been getting deader since—occasional signs of life having likely only been gas leaving the body.

Here’s a quick primer on 10 of cinema’s multiple last gasps. Per Ecclesiastes 1:9, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

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