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[...] (When I speak of cinemas I am not at this juncture referring to those multiplex monstrosities that dedicate their sixteen screens almost entirely to tentpole blockbusters directed by corporate committee; these only rare today happen to screen anything that could be described as cinema.)

[...] At the centre of that film is the story of the life and death of a particular kind of urban institution, the neighborhood cinema, a social space whose exitence brings with it the possibility of both communal artistic experience and the chance encounter. (These encounters tend not to end happi…