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Why old films feel different
There is a kind of patience in them that newer films rarely allow. A scene is permitted to simply exist for a while before it justifies itself. The camera trusts you to be bored for ten seconds. That trust is the texture. Fewer cuts per minute Faces held longer than comfortable Silence used as a material, not a gap to fill I don't think it's nostalgia. I think it's a different theory of the viewer's attention — one that assumed attention was a thing you gave, not a thing to be captured.