Some interesting takes from David Cronenberg on cinema as a community / audience experience. Also contemplating the Nostalgia for this older media form which might wind up with a similar fate as Vinyl Records, the latter being diminished, but not gone with enthusiasts still collecting them.
It could be that the Cinema has grown beyond Auteur films to encompass everything to become more profitable, but could it step back to it's roots?
I think of the time I saw David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE in an independent cinema and I think being in an audience with others taking in this highly surreal film really added to the experience. I don't think this element applies as much to Marvel or more standard Hollywood productions. Sure the bigger screen makes everything a bigger FX spectacle, but I get no audience / community experience vibes from watching such things in a theater that way I would watching a true original art film.
I do think Cinema used to be a more 'Sacred Space' and has lost it in search of broader commercial appeal. It might partly return to that and parly transition to online streaming mixed with online discussion groups. For example, I follow an 'Incredibly Strange Films' group on Facebook that shares and discusses obscure art or cult films.
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