“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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