“Greenaway, whose CV includes The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, believes the laptop generation is no longer content going to a dark place for up to two hours and watching a movie.

He has even pinned down the date when he says cinema died – September 31, 1983 when the remote control was introduced into living rooms around the world.

Generation X is all about multi-media and interacting, which cinema cannot fulfil, he says.”

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“The cinema as we know it is falling apart,” says Francis Ford Coppola.

“It’s a period of incredible change,” says the director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now.” “We used to think of six, seven big film companies. Every one of them is under great stress now. Probably two or three will go out of business and the others will just make certain kind of films like ‘Harry Potter’ — basically trying to make ‘Star Wars’ over and over again, because it’s a business.”

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