Nolan opines that streaming films are a ‘danger’ for cinema; understand

One of the main directors currently active, Christopher Nolan became an active voice in the preservation and maintenance of cinema as art. Now, the filmmaker took the opportunity to give his opinion on the “danger” of films released directly on a streaming platform.

During an interview with The Washington PostNolan took the opportunity to explain the request to those who liked Oppenheimer (2023) buy the movie from Blu-ray “so no evil streaming service can steal it from you.”

So, for the The Washington Postthe director commented how he made a joke when describing streaming platforms as “evil,” but took the opportunity to talk about films that disappear after being excluded from online catalogs.

“Nowadays there is a danger that if things only exist in the streaming version, they will be taken down. They come and go – just like streaming versions of films, so my films will be shown on HBO or anything else, they come and go,” he said.

“But the DVD version is something that can always be there, so people can always access it,” he continued. Christopher Nolan. “And since the 1980s, as filmmakers, we’ve taken that for granted and now we have to make sure there’s a way for that to continue to happen, if not through physical media.”

The danger I’m talking about is that a filmmaker’s film will just disappear from streaming one day and maybe not come back or not come back for a long period of time, that’s not an intentional conspiracy.

Finally, Nolan had a positive line regarding the future of the industry: “This is just the way things evolve, with the specific licensing agreements. So it’s something that’s worth highlighting because it will need to be fixed, but I’m very confident that it will be .”