Lots of films made with a big-screen experience in mind may never play in cinemas. But it's not entirely a bad thing, say some filmmakers.
Last week, filmmaker Jeremy Sims visited his local cinema, Sydney's Randwick Ritz, for the first time in months, and found it packed.
Filmmakers have for years had to contend with the possibility the works they lovingly craft for the big screen might never be seen by most people in a cinema. But the drift to home screens has been massively accelerated by the shutdown. Even more distressingly for big-screen fans, many of us are now consuming our movies not just on TVs and computers, but on tiny handheld devices too.
Unquestionably, one of the things we miss in not seeing movies at the cinema is the shared experience of watching with other people; comedies are rarely as funny when seen alone, adventure films rarely so thrilling . "Cinema actually is about ideas and emotions and stories, it's not about the scale of the screen," says Kriv Stenders, whose documentaryStenders has a pull-down screen at home, on which he watches movies "through Netflix, Apple TV, all these other curatorial sites. I'm having a much more vibrant life as a cinemagoer than I did before."Those libraries do have their limits, though.
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