An essay by Robert Koehler
Two myths about cinema have been so widely promulgated that, like so many myths before them, they have become commonly accepted as truth. The first is that we are on the precipice of the death of cinema, if not falling over the cliff and about to go splat. Although it's been a decade and more since a spate of essays, articles and pronouncements from as disparate a field as Jean-Luc Godard to David Thomsen stated in no uncertain terms that the art form as it's existed for a century is expiring of any number of causes, from an exhaustion of the imagination to business cycles in the exhibition industry to a post-celluloid technological revolution, the sentiment has retained the dogged consistency and belief of that of ufologists and supporters of Bigfoot.
