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Michael Cieply: The New Hollywood–Elites, The Audience And A Wall Of Indifference
A bit of whimsy from 1988 leaves you wondering--what would a film industry map look like now?
The concept and a lot of the sight gags were mine; but Nancy Ohanion was the artist who made it work for the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. But what held the gimmick together was the notion of a geographic divide—marked by the River of Bankability—that separated the major studios and their allies, on the one side, from the Independent Movie Companies, dozens of them, and some renegade producers on the other. Megalopolis, an event at Cannes, is designed with a ‘fourth wall’ moment that gives festival-goers shivers but could never be duplicated nightly at the AMC Dine-In.
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