This might interest you: My Criterion Collection essay on Taste of Cherry appears in my book Algorithm of the Night, which comes out Dec 2.

No one told him about the travel-size section?

At the same time, AI companies like this, while pretending they are acting in the interest of Welles’s legacy, have no actual interest in artists’ rights. They have nothing to say about whether filmmakers today should or should not be treated the way RKO treated Welles by cutting his movie.

The heirs of artistic legacies will do anything not to work and to keep the money rolling in. That is not new. Which is why this kind of thing should be stopped, so as not to tempt them.

This is worse than the Sphere Oz. The inhuman, raising-the-dead aspect here is repellent in a more troubling way. Everything with the AI people’s desecration of cinema makes you wonder about their broken brains.

This is so outrageously misguided, and the THR article is error-riddled. Even the headline is backwards. Can’t wait for their servers to melt down when they try this with Greed.

Oh no, she was so great!

I’ve been thinking about this film too!