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-{{review|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business|Anita Elberse|R37SZE2OLOTDTN|25 April 2014|Contra {{bookreview|The Long Tail}}: the Fat Head.}}
+{{review|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business|Anita Elberse|R37SZE2OLOTDTN|25 April 2014|Contra {{bookreview|The Long Tail}}: the Fat Head.|
+[[File:Dersu uzala.jpg|450px|thumb|center|If you didn’t catch it at the cinema...]]
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-If you only see one movie a year, it’s not likely to be ''Dersu Uzala''.
+If you only see one movie a year, it’s not likely to be ''Dersu Uzala''.<ref>What do you mean, “what on earth is Dersu Uzala”?? Sayeth Wikipedia, of Kurosawa’s lyrical masterpiece: ''Dersu Uzala is epic in form yet intimate in scope. Set in the forests of Eastern Siberia at the turn of the century, it is a portrait of the friendship that grows between an aging hunter and a Russian surveyor. A romantic hymn to nature and the human spirit. </ref>
 If you are a movie executive, this ought not to rock your world. It certainly isn’t a function of the information revolution, and would have been as true when Derzu Uzala was released in 1976 as it is today. Yet it is the intellectual cornerstone of {{author|Anita Elberse}}’s provocative new book “Blockbusters” which dismantles that new-age canard of the [[Long Tail]].