What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?

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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?

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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?

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Soderbergh: "A movie is something you see and cinema is something that's made. Cinema is a specificity, a vision, it's an approach where everything matters. It's the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or fingerprint and it isn't made by a committee and it isn't made by a company and it isn't made by the audience. It means that if this filmmaker didn't do it, it either wouldn't exist at all or it wouldn't exist in anything like this form. So that means you can take a perfectly solid, successful, acclaimed movie and it may not qualify as cinema. It also means that you can take a piece of cinema and it may not qualify as a movie and it may actually be an unwatchable piece of shite. But as long as you have filmmakers out there who have that specific point of view than cinema is never going to disappear completely because it's not about money. It's about good ideas followed up by a well-developed aesthetic.

The problem is that cinema as I define it and as something that inspired me is under assault by the studios and from what I can tell with the full support of the audience. The reasons for this in my opinion are more economic than philosophical but when you add an ample amount of fear and a lack of vision and a lack of leadership, you got a trajectory that I think is pretty difficult to reverse. The idea of cinema as I'm defining it is not on the radar of the studios. This is not a conversation that anybody is having. This is not a word you would ever want to use in a meeting. And speaking of meetings, the meetings have gotten pretty weird. There are fewer and fewer executives who are in the business because they love movies. There are fewer and fewer executives that know movies so it can become a very strange situation. I know how to drive a car but I wouldn't presume to sit in a meeting with an engineer and tell him how to build one and that's kind of what you feel like when you're in these meetings. You've got people who don't know movies and don't watch movies for pleasure deciding what movie you're going to be allowed to make. And that's one reason why studio movies aren't better than they are and that's one reason why cinema as I am defining it is shrinking."

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