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So what if cinemas become ‘jazz bars’ for a select few?
The film industry may be in trouble, but this born-again cinemagoer is not here to save it – just to glimpse lives outside his own.
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Richard Low (left) and Lim Kay Tong in The Old Man And His Car.
PHOTO: WAKING LIFE PICTURES
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It is a new year but the old laments about the death of cinema persist. As I slumped into my seat recently at Golden Village Cineleisure to watch the Singaporean arthouse film The Old Man And His Car, I thought briefly of remarks from Leonardo DiCaprio I had read online.
He wondered about the future of dramas on the big screen, given they are screened for only a short time – if at all – before they move to the streaming platforms.
