Film is a fantastic international art form. I love how films can be made across the world, so you can go to your local cinema and watch things from many, many different perspectives. There is a tendency to associate the film industry with America and Hollywood, but that’s obviously a complete misrepresentation: film is global. This, then, is beyond the pale. “US President Donald Trump says he will hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs, as he ramps up trade disputes with nations around the world.” The p’tahk-in-chief says he wants to revitalise the American film industry by making it far more expensive to import films not made in the US. Just how moronic can he be? To think that films should only be made in America by americans is like saying that only English people should be allowed to write books, or only Italians should be allowed to paint. As a cinephile, I have never heard anything more draconian or regressive. More to the point, in politicising film in this way – in giving it an American nationalist dimension – Trump is taking it down a very dark, dangerous path.