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Article: Festivals: Montreal's 'Politique des Auteurs.' (Montreal Festival des Films du Monde)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1996
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From the perspective of a magazine such as Cineaste, which is especially concerned with world cinema, documentaries, and independent film, the significance of the Montreal Festival des Films du Monde is evident now more than ever. Commenting on recent changes in the global film economy, Robert Sklar points out in this issue of Cineaste that U.S. exhibitors are currently preparing to increase drastically the number of domestic screens in order to accommodate Hollywood fare. With the U.S. exhibition infrastructure being rigorously remodeled for blockbuster releases, the opening weekend of a big budget film will not only make or break the picture, as it does already, but also ...