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1997.
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STREAMS WITHIN THE MAINSTREAM

Film Trends in the Nineties

The article is an overview of general film trends in the cinema of the nineties: The French revival, failing pressure of the Hollywood mainstream, festivals as the main trend indicators, a prolific wave of US »auteur« independents, the world domination of British social wave films.

The world cinema of the nineties is marked with highly dynamic trends. There is the French revival with C. Klapisch, M. Kassovitz, the new Chabrol and Rohmer. The pressure from Hollywood’s mainstream blockbusters continues but lacks inventiveness with catastrophe films filed with sentimentalism and banal situations, unsuccessful highbudget comedy and women’s films. Film festivals like Cannes, Sundance, Venice and Berlin continue to be the main trend indicators particularly sensitive to anything trendy and new.

The rise of US »auteur« independents (low budget films) is also very important, with some of them competing for a place in the mainstream cinema, while others, like Sayles, continue to work low budget. This prolific off-field, with 800 films registered at the Sundance film festival, has become dense with short and transient recycling trends such as noire revivals, pulp poetics, gay films, young films, new age films, etc. In Britain, social wave films masterfully dominate over the staid mainstream adaptations of Shakespeare and Austin.



Dragan Rubeša

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