Opinion Today: I miss movie theaters

And that deep, unwavering focus. 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Like a lot of people, I’ve gone almost a whole year without going to one — definitely some kind of record. What am I actually missing, though? We live in the Streaming Age, with undreamed-of amounts of great stuff to watch, not to mention giant flat-screen TVs that are cheaper than ever. Were theaters even all that great? Or am I just feeling nostalgic for any pre-pandemic ritual that involved crowds and snacks and, you know, a blithe disregard for airborne pathogens? I think it’s the movies themselves that I miss. If I’ve learned anything from 11 months of watching Netflix and HBO Max, it’s that I’m just no good at watching movies at home. It’s not that I think modern attention spans are that bad — if anything, it’s almost heroic how we make sense of our torrential digital feeds every day. But there’s a restlessness that comes with it. I find myself unwilling — unable, even — to sit down and completely tune in to a good movie. Again and again, I skip over a queue brimming with really good things, in favor of something that won’t suffer if I keep an eye on my phone. (This is how I’ve become someone who’s watched “The Da Vinci Code” three times.) A movie theater, on the other hand, is a beautifully simple machine for enhancing your attention. Between the dark environment, the impossibility of pausing the action while you go for a snack and the understanding that even a quick Twitter check will be met with murderous glares from your neighbors, theaters grant you the superpower of deep, unwavering focus. And that makes movies so much better. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-0) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0RsaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NTk3ODUmbGk9VFkmbT1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZwPVRZXzIwMjEwMTI5VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~ ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NDUwODUxJmxpPVRZJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1UWV8yMDIxMDEyOVcDbnl0QgpgEdIFFGDpj-X0Uht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NTgxOTIxJmxpPVRZJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1UWV8yMDIxMDEyOVcDbnl0QgpgEdIFFGDpj-X0Uht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ I’ve been thinking about all of this because the Sundance Film Festival started this week, and as usual, Times Opinion [is publishing a collection of](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS8wMS8yOC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRhbmNlLW9wZG9jcy0yMDIxLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMTAxMjkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjY1NDEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTA1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) short documentaries from the festival. But this year the festival itself is largely online, and I won’t get to have the marvelous experience of seeing these films on the big screen. I may have watched an Op-Doc a dozen times by the time it publishes, but seeing it in a theater never fails to surprise me. Take “[The Field Trip](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMS8yOC9vcGluaW9uL3RoZS1maWVsZC10cmlwLXN1bmRhbmNlLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMTAxMjkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjY1NDEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTA1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~),” by Meghan O’Hara, Mike Attie and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, which follows a crowd of fifth graders as they spend a day role-playing in grown-up jobs. It’s delightful wherever you watch it. But it’s also the kind of film that rewards every scrap of attention you have, elevating the kids’ playacting into a parable about how we comply with our own workplace roles. And I know that, in a theater, Noemie Nakai’s “[Tears Teacher](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL3RlYXJzLXRlYWNoZXItY3J5aW5nLWphcGFuLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMTAxMjkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjY1NDEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTA1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)” might actually trigger a mass-crying event. As for Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers’s “[A Concerto Is a Conversation](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0TzaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMS8yNC9vcGluaW9uL2EtY29uY2VydG8taXMtYS1jb252ZXJzYXRpb24tZ3JlYXQtbWlncmF0aW9uLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMTAxMjkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjY1NDEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTA1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)” — well, I just want to live inside that movie for a little while. A theater would be the way to do it. But until that’s an option again, I’ll just need to learn to hide my phone under the bed before I watch anything. This weekend I hope you’ll have a chance to [enjoy these films](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh9orSP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS8wMS8yOC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRhbmNlLW9wZG9jcy0yMDIxLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMTAxMjkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MjY1NDEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTA1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmAR0gUUYOmP5fRSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), too — in whatever your best substitute for a movie theater is. 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