Journal of Alta California

Stretching the Movie Experience

At the San Francisco Film Festival earlier this year, I gave a talk about the Netflix series “The Crown” and showed 15 minutes of clips. Afterward, several people said that while they enjoyed “The Crown” at home on their TVs, there was an extra thrill in watching these clips on the big movie screen at SFMOMA. On that scale, you could feel the drip of anointing oil in the coronation scene and see fleeting thoughts behind Claire Foy’s eyes that had been vague at home.

We wondered: If the Festival had elected to show all of “The Crown” (so far) in a movie theater — all 20 hours — would an audience come? “How

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