Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Yes, that’s right. Now, if we think of the 1990s, the late ’90s, Taiwanese film is quite special. A bit later, South Korean film becomes the thing. Iranian movies for a while, though that probably is mostly over. There’s a blip in Romanian cinema. What’s the next location where you’re excited about the moviemaking? I don’t know. I kind of feel like I’ve already gone through sort of the peak period for my life. Everybody has eras that resonate with them. For me, the East Asian films from places like Taiwan in the ’90s were maybe what the French New Wave was to a generation older than me. I don’t know if I’ll ever really recreate that feeling. That’s not a knock on the movie industry. I think the directors coming along now are perhaps as talented as ever or more talented, but it’s my receptivity to what’s being done is maybe not as high as when I was younger. There’s a certain period when you’re at your peak ability to receive a certain type of film. I just looked at a list of Matt Yglesias’s favorite films. Three of them that I’d seen — Dune, Anora, and Challengers — they seemed like good films, but I felt like I was too old for them. I didn’t really connect with them. Maybe a generational thing.…

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