经济学人下载:独立电影的复兴

The revival of independent film
独立电影的复兴

Scripts, not effects       
剧本才是王道，资金不是问题

Independent films are at last recovering from the slump
独立电影终于起死回生了

I’m bored with the radio. Let’s go to the cinema
听广播太无聊了，我们去看看电影吧

THE Toronto film festival, which ends this week, marks the start of the serious-film season. Out—at least until

Thanksgiving, in late November—go the superhero spectaculars. In come the foreign films and the dining-room dramas. The autumn crop is far more prone to failure than the summer one. But highbrow films now come with higher hopes.

本周谢幕的多伦多电影节标志着严肃电影的活跃期已到来。看来要到感恩节，也就是11月末这场群雄逐鹿的盛大比拼才会散场。紧接着外国电影和爱情文艺片就要闪亮登场。今年秋季档的影片失败的风险比暑期档的还大，不过这次文艺片获胜的希望还大一些。

For the past few years the independent film business has resembled a low-budget horror movie. Outside financing was brutally killed in 2008, as banks stopped lending. Three of the six major studios axed subsidiaries that had specialised in buying independent films. Consumers struck another blow by switching from buying DVDs to renting them.

过去几年里，独立电影的票房就像低成本的恐怖电影一样惨淡。因为不能再从银行贷款，外界融资渠道也在2008年中断了。六大制片公司中有三个都砍掉了专门收购独立电影的子公司。而观众对影碟从买到租的转变对于独立电影又是一大打击。