"Since Netflix recently announced its intent to purchase Warner Bros Discovery for a meaningless $80 billion or so-instigating Paramount to barge in with a hostile takeover bid of $100 billion-the only potentially decent news coming out of that monopolistic nightmare is that WB will no longer be run by dull-eyed toad in a quarter-zip, CEO David Zaslav. Regardless, whoever wins, we lose."
"As I wrote in my review, "Because Train Dreams is indebted to the acute pain of loss...and Netflix is more responsible for the loss of theatrical culture than any other unyielding corporate monster, it's a strange home for the film." It would be ironic that one of the most patently gorgeous films of 2025 barely made it to any actual theater screens, but we're past irony at this point."
Many exceptional 2025 films played in Portland, where a thriving network of independently owned, often centenarian cinemas sustains repertory screenings and dedicated audiences. Major studios continue consolidating, and theatrical exhibition windows shrink as streaming access rises, undermining theatrical culture. Netflix announced intent to purchase Warner Bros Discovery for roughly $80 billion, prompting a hostile Paramount bid; corporate consolidation threatens distribution and exhibition. Train Dreams embodies grief and loss and reached few theaters despite cinematic beauty. Robert Granier's film uses grief to add texture to a life. Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent (1977 Recife) follows Armando and underground organizers attempting escape.
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