Park Chan-wook brands prospect of streaming killing cinemas ‘heartbreaking’
Park Chan-wook says streamers killing off cinemas would be “heartbreaking”. The ‘Old Boy’ director, 59, added if he was handed a huge amount of funding by the likes of Netflix he would make a version of Émile Zola’s 19th Century-set book ‘La Bête Humaine’. He told NME when asked if he thought cinemas had as bright a future as the small screen: “It’s so complicated, and things are changing by the minute. Some festivals are still excluding streaming films, and I obviously understand the concerns. “But what complicates things is films like ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Roma’, which I adore, and which were ...