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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
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February 5, 2026
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0:11Now Playing“The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”:
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