HWD Daily – Martin Scorsese, Netflix–Academy Peace Broker
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A perhaps unlikely olive-branch-wielder has appeared in the midst of the streaming wars: Martin Scorsese, Academy darling and Netflix filmmaker (as of the release of The Irishman, coming to the streaming platform this fall). Though the decorated director is openly dismissive of the idea of calling films “content”—a ubiquitous term with roots in the Internetification of culture—he’s also of the opinion that the famously stodgy Film Academy should give newer movie conveyance methods a chance
