I Saw the Devil

[IKickAssForTheLord]

[BurnetRhoades]

LOL, even prompting you to go educate yourself on the history of the term you can't be bothered. You and your cheerleader would argue with an astronaut over what it's like to EVA.

Now you're even wrong about the Drafthouse.

[BurnetRhoades]

[FrighT MasteR]

[steelba]

Burnet

[IKickAssForTheLord]

Man, can't we all just get along here?

[FrighT MasteR]

Man, can't we all just get along here?

[Darkgod]

LOL, even prompting you to go educate yourself on the history of the term you can't be bothered. You and your cheerleader would argue with an astronaut over what it's like to EVA.

Now you're even wrong about the Drafthouse.

And you still fail to answer my questions... and hide from the answers that derail your theory. And I am not wrong on the drafthouse, its not an arthouse. You tell us to educate ourselves, go venture out and see how your wrong. Just be a big enough man to admit it. But incase you don't want to go looking, answer me my questions again.

[IKickAssForTheLord]

Jerk.

[Darkgod]

Infraction time

[FrighT MasteR]

[steelba]

Infraction time

About time mofo.

[BurnetRhoades]

And you still fail to answer my questions... and hide from the answers that derail your theory. And I am not wrong on the drafthouse, its not an arthouse. You tell us to educate ourselves, go venture out and see how your wrong. Just be a big enough man to admit it. But incase you don't want to go looking, answer me my questions again.

You haven't given any answers that derail shit because you don't know what you're talking about. Which is pretty freakin' ironic considering you jumped on Prince in usual aggressively obnoxious form, trying to make yourself seem smarter than him who, though he might have been struggling to articulate a fairly abstract idea was way more right than wrong going by textbook definitions of "arthouse", "art film", I Saw the Devil, what it can be considered in the landscape of film in America and where it's most likely to be seen.

Why don't you look up repertory theatre smart guy. Hell, why don't you look up "arthouse cinema"?

It's amazing how wrong you are and funny how you've tried to create the illusion of an argument by simply saying a bunch of nonsense that isn't based on your faulty understanding.

[Darkgod]

Yet again failed to answer anything.... because you know once you do your arguement is for shit...

I looked up repertory theatre... do not know why that has anything to do with this, but thanks for bringing it up.

[BurnetRhoades]

Yet again failed to answer anything.... because you know once you do your arguement is for shit...

I looked up repertory theatre... do not know why that has anything to do with this, but thanks for bringing it up.

You looked it up and you still fail this hard. Wow. Just. Wow.

[Darkgod]

and yet again you fail to answer my questions... but to entertain you... why does a stage production have anything to do with the discussion if " I saw the devil is arthouse"

[BurnetRhoades]

LOL, "repertory" is another interchangeable term for "arthouse". While the Alamo Drafthouse has grown to also play mainstream films in the last ten years its primary importance is as a repertory movie house. It's revival and special screenings are, in addition to the food service and atmosphere, what makes the Alamo Drafthouse the Alamo Drafthouse. Therefore you are incorrect, multiple times, in your assertion that it is not "arthouse". The Alamo Drafthouse is the cornerstone of Austin repertory cinema scene (Arbor and The Dobie being other examples). Only a complete moron would argue otherwise.

Babble your nonsense about rottentomatoes.

An art film (also known as art movie, specialty film, art house film, or in the collective sense as art cinema) is typically a serious, independently made film aimed at a niche audience rather than a mass audience.[1] Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an "art film" using a "...canon of films and those formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films",[2] which includes, among other elements: a social realism style; an emphasis on the authorial expressivity of the director; and a focus on the thoughts and dreams of characters, rather than presenting a clear, goal-driven story. Film scholar David Bordwell claims that "art cinema itself is a [film] genre, with its own distinct conventions."[3]

Art film producers usually present their films at specialty theatres (repertory cinemas, or in the U.S. "arthouse cinemas") and film festivals. The term art film is much more widely used in the United States than in Europe, where the term is more associated with "auteur" films and "national cinema" (e.g., German national cinema). Art films are aimed at small niche market audiences, which means they can rarely get the financial backing which will permit large production budgets, expensive special effects, costly celebrity actors, or huge advertising campaigns, as are used in widely-released mainstream blockbuster films. Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of film, which typically uses lesser-known film actors (or even amateur actors) and modest sets to make films which focus much more on developing ideas or exploring new narrative techniques or filmmaking conventions.

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Japanese director Akira Kurosawa made a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s that broke the conventions of mainstream filmmaking.

Oh wait, but there's more...

1960s–1970s


Actress Lena Nyman from the Swedish film 'I Am Curious (Yellow).
The French New Wave movement continued into the 1960s. During the 1960s, the term "art film" began to be much more widely used in the United States than in Europe. In the U.S., the term is often defined very broadly, to include foreign-language (non-English) "auteur" films, independent films, experimental films, documentaries and short films. In the 1960s "art film" became a euphemism in the U.S. for racy Italian and French B-movies. By the 1970s, the term was used to describe sexually explicit European films with artistic structure such as the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow). In the U.S., the term "art film" is sometimes used very loosely to refer to the broad range of films shown in repertory theaters or "arthouse cinemas." With this approach, a broad range of films, such as a 1960s Hitchcock film, a 1970s experimental underground film, a European auteur film, a U.S. "Independent" film, and even a mainstream foreign-language film (with subtitles) might all fall under the rubric of "art house films."

Wait for it, wait for it....yes, there's more...

1980s–2000s
By the 1980s and 1990s, the term became conflated with "independent film" in the U.S., which shares many of the same stylistic traits with "art film." Companies such as Miramax Films distributed independent films which were deemed commercially unviable at the major studios. When major motion picture studios noted the niche appeal of independent films, they created special divisions dedicated to non-mainstream fare, such as the Fox Searchlight division of Twentieth Century Fox, the Focus Features division of Universal, and the Sony Pictures Classics division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Film critics have debated whether the films from these special divisions can truly be considered to be "independent films", given that they have financial backing from major studios.
In 2007, Professor Camille Paglia argued in her article "Art movies: R.I.P." that "[a]side from Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather series, with its deft flashbacks and gritty social realism, ...[there is not]...a single film produced over the past 35 years that is arguably of equal philosophical weight or virtuosity of execution to Bergman's The Seventh Seal or Persona ". Paglia states that young people from the 2000s do not "...have patience for the long, slow take that deep-think European directors once specialized in", an approach which gave "...luxurious scrutiny of the tiniest facial expressions or the chilly sweep of a sterile room or bleak landscape".[12]

...you dumb mother fucker.

[BurnetRhoades]

Oh, and let's see, hmmmm...where did I Saw the Devil play, when it was still in theatres, all over the U-S-of-A, I wonder? Good thing I've this trusty search engine and a grasp of the English language...or at least enough to type:

"t-h-e-a-t-r-e-s-s-h-o-w-i-n-g-i-s-a-w-t-h-e-d-e-v-i-l"

I Saw The Devil

LATEST LISTINGS

6/10/2011
Keene, NH: Putnam Arts Lecture Hall

7/8/2011
Milwaukee, WI: Times Cinema

OLDER LISTINGS
On Screen (as of 4-15-11)
Houston, TX: River Oaks Theatre
Fort Collins, CO: Lyric Cinema Cafe 2
Detroit, MI: Burton Theatre
Coral Gables, FL: Coral Gables Art Cinema
Springfield, MO: Moxie Cinema 2
Duluth, MN: Zinema 2

Opening
4/22/2011
Tempe, AZ: MADCAP Theaters 3

4/24/2011
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia-off screen

4/28/2011
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico

5/6/2011
Brookline, MA: Coolidge Corner Theatre
Pleasantville, NY: Jacob Burns Film Center

5/12/2011
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Cinematheque

5/13/2011
Paducah, KY: Maiden Alley

5/14/2011
Silver Spring, MD: AFI Silver Theatre Culture Center

Hmmmm....I sense a trend with these.

[FrighT MasteR]

Alamo Drafthouse

[BurnetRhoades]

Alamo Drafthouse