We've written elsewhere that
art house films only cross the line to wide appreciation if the characters are writ deep and wide.
Not exact matches
To push the movie analogy further: It's harder for
films to generate a ton of excitement when they're
only being shown in
art houses.
Not
only did the
film fare stratospherically well in August's native Denmark, but its sensitive portrayal of youthful love and loss earned the earnest
film a place in numerous
art -
house theaters in the U.S. as well.
The
only problem is that aside from his more commercially focused
film Drive, a lot of Nicolas» work is even more divisive than Zack Snyder's, and some would say are borderline incoherent
art -
house pantings caught on
film.
But while I would
only recommend it to
art -
house enthusiasts due to its slow pace, it is refreshing to see a
film that deals with body image from an older woman's point of view.
Such meticulous, fashionable naturalism belongs to many European
art films and not a few Sundance products (Carpignano, gifted cinematographer Wyatt Garfield and editor Affonso Gonçalves all worked on «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» whose director, Benh Zeitlin, co-wrote the score of «Mediterranea») and it's not always fortunate, resulting in
films often destined to reach
only elite audiences in festivals and
art houses.
The CdT is proud to be North Africa «s
only art house cinema, showing the best of contemporary and classic
film in the historic heart of Tangier.
(1) The
art collector he admires most is Count Panza di Biumo; (2) Of all visual artists active c.1940 - 2009,
only Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be seen as important; (3) Of all the promising artists who died young, the one with the most potential was Scott Burton; (4) He prefers Monet to Modigliani; (5) His favourite
art museum is the Prado, Madrid; (6) His
house is usually full of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post
art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual
art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and
films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56).