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Article: Cinema-verite. (renting movies on video) (Column)
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- Commonweal
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- November 4, 1994
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I liked it when the movie theater was the place to see movies. I went enthusiastically, even if the movie was mediocre. It was good to get out. In Annie Hall, Diane Keaton thinks it's great to watch movies in a home screening room (the mansion of the producer, played by Paul Simon). But Woody Allen disagrees. He says it isn't the same if you don't "make the effort" of going out to the theater.
Now we have VCRs. For a measly dollar, I can see a movie in my house without combing my hair or putting on shoes. If the movie falls short of phenomenal, I walk out of the room indifferently. Worse, if I find the movie phenomenal, I'm still indifferent, scratching my belly ...