Sentence examples for communal cinema from inspiring English sources

The internet hasn't affected cinema in the same way that it has hit music and TV, not least because the experience is as important as the film and it isn't easy to replicate the communal cinema experience.

In the future, telecommunications companies assured us, the communal, cinema experience would become extinct, a thing of the past; instead, we would watch feature films on our handsets – never mind that the experience of viewing Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen on a 3.5in iPhone screen is even more disorienting and depressing than watching it in a multiplex.

Tenants are typically offered longer tenancies than for standard rental accommodation, with contracts of up to three years or more, and other amenities, such as gyms, communal lounges and cinema rooms.

In the beginning, Britons watched television as if they were at the cinema: on communal sets and in large crowds or at 'TV tea parties' that buzzed with collective excitement.

A more pessimistic view sees a Hobbesian war for human attention in which the DVR competes with the multiplex and the churchly communal concentration of the cinema is disrupted by the annoying flickering of smartphones.

A new block of more than 500 apartments, the Collective acts like a giant shared house: small private bedrooms with communal laundry, kitchens, spa, cinema and workspaces … and some covert matchmaking by the managers.

Nor, for that matter, do the movies enjoy the monopoly on visual information that they did then: images of the current war now reach us instantaneously wherever we are, around the clock, rather than in the communal darkness of the cinema.

And I believe that the natural place to watch films, at least certain kinds of films, is in the communal experience of a cinema.

You see, I don't go to a cinema for the communal experience.

In an age of instant access and shrinking screens the insistence on cinema as a communal experience can only be called utopian.

The idea of cinema as a communal experience finds itself at a strange point when rep is making pleas for its own existence alongside the multiplex, which has been trying for the novelty factor by resurrecting 3D.