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As someone who has watched The Turin Horse on his home cinema about once a year since it came out (glad to see another Tarr fan here on HN), I have never had to

As someone who has watched The Turin Horse on his home cinema about once a year since it came out (glad to see another Tarr fan here on HN), I have never had to pause and ruin the mood. I definitely understand what you mean when you say phones can be a distraction, but then why not just leave your phone in the kitchen or bedroom for the time you are watching the film? The walls won’t reflect too much light if you take adequate measures so that they are not pure white and uncovered. For me, the challenge of setting up the home cinema was not the reflecting light of the walls, inasmuch as they could be covered with bookshelves. Rather, it was the acoustics when I have large windows in the room – I could cover them with Ikea’s fully opaque curtains so that light isn’t a problem, but the glass of the windowpanes still has a detrimental effect on the sound.

JansjoFromIkea 7y ago
My point is that a lot of people may not even be aware that that's a benefit they get from a cinema. If you're not neurotic enough to notice how much your regular distractions can take away from a film you're going to get a better experience from a theatrical viewing without fully even knowing how and all the gear in the world isn't going to make up for a lack of discipline. In my case, I've a timed lock I put my phone away with ("just stop doing it" doesn't really work with me, 100% addicted) when I watch a film I actually want to pay attention to at home. No way my attention span could handle something like Bela Tarr at home (I'm a fidgety unfocused person and always have been), but for the most part it done the job. RE: the space, it's hard to get a good setup with rented accommodation, or small accommodation (currently in a studio apartment). I'm sure I'll eventually have a place where I can set up an amazing system.
JansjoFromIkea 7y ago
super envious of your setup btw! I'll love setting up that kind of thing whenever I get a chance. My current apartment has woodchip wallpaper and nowhere to hang a screen from, so I'm hacking together ~80inch screen project (have an old bed frame I chopped up and repurposed as a room divider that I'm gonna add a roller blind and curtains onto that I'm pretty sure will kind of work...)

JansjoFromIkea 7y ago

My point is that a lot of people may not even be aware that that's a benefit they get from a cinema. If you're not neurotic enough to notice how much your regular distractions can take away from a film you're going to get a better experience from a theatrical viewing without fully even knowing how and all the gear in the world isn't going to make up for a lack of discipline. In my case, I've a timed lock I put my phone away with ("just stop doing it" doesn't really work with me, 100% addicted) when I watch a film I actually want to pay attention to at home. No way my attention span could handle something like Bela Tarr at home (I'm a fidgety unfocused person and always have been), but for the most part it done the job. RE: the space, it's hard to get a good setup with rented accommodation, or small accommodation (currently in a studio apartment). I'm sure I'll eventually have a place where I can set up an amazing system.

JansjoFromIkea 7y ago

super envious of your setup btw! I'll love setting up that kind of thing whenever I get a chance. My current apartment has woodchip wallpaper and nowhere to hang a screen from, so I'm hacking together ~80inch screen project (have an old bed frame I chopped up and repurposed as a room divider that I'm gonna add a roller blind and curtains onto that I'm pretty sure will kind of work...)