David Lynch slams modern film viewing habits  June 21st, 2013
David Lynch has branded people who watch movies on smartphones
and portable computers as ''pathetic''.  The director has
lambasted those who enjoy films on the go, insisting movies
should only be seen in a dark room with ''great sound''.
Speaking in The New Review magazine - available in this week's
Independent on Sunday newspaper - the 67-year-old filmmaker:
''If you have a chance to enter another world ... it's a
spiritual, magic experience. If you have the same movie on a
little computer screen with bad sound - and this is the way
people are seeing films now - it's such a shame. It's a
shameful, shameful thing. It's so pathetic.''  Lynch - whose
cinematic efforts include 'Dune', 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland
Empire' - is known for his controversial and surrealist movie
style, and for speaking his mind.  He also hinted that he may
never make another film, and Lynch blames the profit obsessed
movie industry and the death of avant-garde cinema f