David Cronenberg's new film presents widower Karsh Relikh inviting Myrna to a restaurant that showcases his graveyard business, featuring livestream burial shrouds. The film reflects a larger narrative about the film industry, which is grappling with challenges from superhero dominance, streaming services, and changing audience engagement. The aging of influential filmmakers from the New Hollywood era marks a significant transition within cinema, as these once-innovative artists approach the end of their careers while the art form itself faces existential threats.
In David Cronenberg's new film, widower Karsh Relikh invites Myrna to a restaurant that doubles as a showroom for his graveyard business, showcasing burial shrouds equipped with livestreaming cameras.
Attuning ourselves to the vibrations of the elderly, the dying, and the dead might be a valuable skill for fans of artistic cinema in 2025, when the medium itself seems on death's door.
The artists who most visibly defined this medium, predominantly white and male, are either dead or not far from it, indicating a shift in the cinematic landscape.
The New Hollywood generation of the 1970s, once upstarts in the ashes of the old Hollywood studio system, have themselves become the old guard and are approaching the end of the road.
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