And, sometimes, cinema must show us how others live, too.
The cinema currently shows second run movies almost every day of the week, usually between 3 and 6 weeks after their nationwide release.
In the 1930s it was also used as a cinema showing talkies.
All cinemas show at least the equivalent of that in British films already.
In 1970, the institution transformed the building into a cinema showing Chinese movies.
I've taken her out twice to a dinner dance which wasn't on and to a cinema showing the wrong film.
We maintain that imperfect cinema must above all show the process which generates the problems.
I just hope that a cinema near me will be showing The Artist.
For many years there have been no public theaters, and only very few cinemas showing foreign films.
The closest cinema showing it to me is 34 miles and an hour's travelling time away.