Give us credits: why do so many films now take 40 minutes to start? | Movies

Johnnie To’s film Breaking News (2004) begins with a six-minute street battle filmed with a camera that swoops high and low.

If movies didn’t need to be publicised in advance, audiences would be able to go into Fresh feeling entirely, well, fresh. They could spend the first half-hour savouring this wry take on the frustrations of […]