From Facebook posts written by the director Paul Schrader since 2021.

an observation about film economics. The post-nickelodeon decision to monetize motion pictures (squeezing large numbers of patrons into unair-conditioned rooms with—for a time—intermittent vaudeville acts) worked like a charm, for decades. Then came TV. Yet movies survived, and became exploitation pix, women’s pix, prestige pix, horror pix, genre pix, realist pix. They were bigger in scope, racier in subject matter: newsreels, serious dramas, art films, European films—in air-conditioned cinemas. Now comes film’s third phase: the growing desire of audiences to see in-theater entertainment…