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b'Having programmed two high-profile Netflix premieres, Bong Joon Ho\\u2019s Okja and Noah Baumbach\\u2019s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), in the main competition, Cannes was shadowed by a debate over distribution\\u2014theatrical versus streaming\\u2014and the role of heavyweight newcomers Amazon and Netflix. The controversy placed streaming services in direct opposition to cinemas, but the shifting landscape is more complex; for one, Amazon also distributes its titles with more conventional theatrical rollouts, and the same-day VOD release model doesn\\u2019t apply to every Amazon title in the market. This episode of The Film Comment Podcast focuses not only on streaming, but also on the interactions between global markets and studios, film critics and consumers, and cinephiles and local art house circuits\\u2014and why it\\u2019s difficult to make a monolithic statement about what the future holds. Daniel Lor\\xeda, Editorial Director of Box Office Magazine, and Nick Pinkerton, member of the New York Film Critics Circle, offer up their insights in conversation with FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca.'