Although released in 2004, the film’s understanding of the threat to a once treasured communal establishment is profoundly poignant and has sadly foreshadowed the demise of cinema in the wake of streaming service success, increased television access, and piracy. The movie is a nod to modern-day cinema, and the frequent sea of empty seats, the only remnants of a bygone era. Displaying the 1967 action epic Dragon Inn at the packed Taiwanese cinema in the town of Taipei, the theater quickly filters out over the film's duration, leaving just the ghosts of former filmgoers. Ming-Liang Tsai’s Goodbye, Dragon Inndepicts a movie theater's final screening before its permanent closure.
There are numerous, exceptional movies primarily set in movie theaters or which feature them in crucial ways, and here are some of the best… The trailer to Sam Mendes’ new movie, Empire of Light starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Michael Ward, and Toby Jones premiered last week, and it is a film that pays homage to British cinema, and to the beauty of 24 frames per second.
Yet, despite those exasperating inclinations, cinemas do not only play host to the irksome, but have also been the home to several movies that have been set in their very confines. The popcorn rustlers, the sweet-packet scrunchers, the natterers, the serial phone-users, the late-comers, the torch-flashers, the copulation-indulgers (seriously, get a room), the loud-eaters, the parents who let their babies talk and scream - there’s a special place in hell reserved for every single one of you. Yet, for all their enchantment, movie theaters have this peculiar tendency to bring the most infuriating, irritating, and inconsiderate people to one place. Cinemas possess this certain magic, bringing the stars on Hollywood Boulevard to life on a 50-foot silver screen.
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