Jodie Foster has spent her entire life in and around Hollywood. She acts, directs, produces, and is just a wealth of information about the business.While accepting a tribute award at the Marrakech Film Festival this week, Jodie Foster offered a candid critique of Martin Scorsese’s 2023 epic Killers of the Flower Moon. Her take? The 206-minute runtime wasn't actually long enough.According to a report from Deadline, Foster suggested the story would have been better served as an eight-hour limited series on streaming rather than a theatrical feature.Let's dive in. - YouTubewww.youtube.comFoster's Argument Jodie Foster has been in some landmark movies and TV shows (like True Detective). And she's successfully transitioned between directing features and helming episodes for high-end TV (like Black Mirror and Tales from the Loop).Her argument over Killers of the Flower Moon is that the traditional feature format forced Scorsese to compress a sprawling history into a box that didn't quite fit.“Streaming is able to do things that we’re not able to do in traditional mainstream movies anymore. Real narrative now in the United States is on streaming. Big franchise superhero movies are what you see in the movie theaters, but the real, real narrative is on streaming,” she said.“Then there’s streaming. You’re able to tell eight-hour stories, or five-season stories, where you can explore every angle in a way that you could never in a feature. I love the freedom of that.”“Everybody was sort of excited that the native story was going to be told, and what...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 1 December