One died, who's left?

Ingmar Bergman died today in his house. It seems like so many big directors die but so little are born.

Just had a conversation with a co-student today. We were in the back seat of my parents' car, after an exam in contemporary cinema. He said it's actually not contemporary at all what they teach us. They talk for 3 years about the films of Godard and Pasolini, but only give 15 minutes to Almodovar and Tarantino. Thats true, and though I really enjoy the time they talk about the older masters, and I even think it's not enough, I can see his point. Nobody talks about what is happening now, those days, on the screens. Sometimes they will mention the great cinematography in "children of men" etc, but that's it.

What is our time? What is actually happening NOW in the cinemas worldwide? And in the small alternative screening places? What do they show? That's what I will try to focus on in the next few months, or years.

In between exams, of course. The one I did today was alright.