On Cinematic Decline: Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Dorsky's Devotional Cinema

 

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This essay covers the slow death of cinematic movie theaters as captured in Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Viewing the film through the vision of cinema Nathaniel Dorsky lays out in his book Devotional Cinema, we gain an understanding of why theaters mean so much to us, why the experiences we've had inside them are so important, and how sad it is that these shared spaces for connecting with the arts are disappearing from our communities.