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Cannes wasn’t born in 1946 — it was resurrected, and its prestige rests on gatekeeping, not spontaneity.

Sundance doesn’t launch outsiders—it certifies insiders.

It wasn’t a wave—it was a manifesto written by critics who then picked up cameras.

Hollywood is not a dream factory — it’s a neighbourhood that got annexed, then weaponised by vertical integration.

Neorealism didn’t show reality—it showed what happened when the studio lights went out and the cameras stayed rolling.

New Hollywood didn’t reinvent cinema — it re-routed authority from studios to directors, and turned realism into a grammar.