At 14 or so minutes a short, they’re well-suited to the contracted attention span that holding an iPhone in one’s hand tends to encourage. In a conversation with Peter Becker, the president of the Criterion Collection, he acknowledged that he’d never watched a feature-length film from beginning to end on a phone. Since Genet’s movie was often viewed as samizdat, there was an unusual carry-over of subversive feeling in my viewing. Mr. Becker said that Criterion and its sister company, the theatrical distributor Janus Films, consider the theatrical experience crucial to their concerns. “You have to be available to the way that people are watching movies,” he said.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 12:00 UTC