Hello again, Dogville,
That looks something like a Websters dictionary definition, and encapsulates the subject perfectly from a US standpoint.
The difference between the US and elsewhere regarding Art House, is, yet another example of us using the same language, but dissecting and reassembling in a different fashion - same clothes, different name scenario.
Outside the US, Art House is the genre, Auteurs the people responsible for creating the work that makes up the genre, and Art House Cinemas are where they are often, but not exclusively, shown.
A perfect example of a movie seen as mainstream, AND Art House outside the US is Jean Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano De Bergerac. But, in the US, especially as it is in French with subtitles (exquisitely wrought by the late great Anthony Burgess to read in rhyming couplets as per the original lyric poem, actually), meant it never got a sniff at mainstream distribution.
My personal experience of Art House Cinemas in the US is that they tend to be the last refuge of literally 'anything' which doesn't fit the Hollywood mainstream norm. So, very many films seen as mainstream in Canada, Britain, the Antipodes, etc, are lumped together in these small bastions we would probably think of as 'good taste', by and large.
On the other hand, I'm reliably informed we often speak far too fast for American ears, and that's another reason the films get shuffled off to the Art House corner. Stories of Canadians and Brits, especially, on-set in the US to do their first scene in their first Hollywood movie, being pulled aside to be told, 'that was great, but could you do it a little slower', are legion, so the theory holds water.
Anyhow, back to the film at hand. I would never call you a moron for liking the film. Misguided, maybe, but that's another matter.
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dogville888
17 years ago
[ynotnasirron wrote]Anyhow, back to the film at hand. I would never call you a moron for liking the film. Misguided, maybe, but that's another matter.[ynotnasirron wrote]
Just when i'm starting to like you......you go and say something like that. I'll resist getting offended and dismiss that as a friendly jab between film buffs who simply disagree on a film. I'm off to catch a flight to the "land of fast talkers" (Canada) to check out the Toronto Film Fest. I'm sure i'll eventually run into you on one of the forums for some of the films I see there. Take care.
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GoldenYellow
17 years ago
I love these comments, worse then Medieval torture. Firstly, spell the word right. O.k that's a little harsh, but atleast in the heading! Also, come on, you might have not liked it, but torture?
Anyway i liked the film, I am British and currently visiting Vancouver. I saw it on my trip up to Whistler, on grass by a lake, on a massive blow up screen, with alchohol and a random australian I met on Zipline. We like it. Lol, for me the setting was cool and it was nice to see a film about Vancouver whilst visiting it, felt sort of appropriate. To me it seemed a decent film, a little artsy but it worked. Not sure what people hated so much. I found it philosophical and reasonably smart, without being one of those arrogant movies, yes a little slow but I was not excpecting Bourne Ultimate that I saw a few days later. That was fast and holywood, this was pondering and local-like.
Death: "There is no Justice. Only me."
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Five-Leaves_Left
17 years ago
Well, Dogville,
You may actually bump into me at some film festival for that matter; thing is we would probably never know.
Pleased you didn't get offended - it was indeed just a friendly, if mischievous, jab at you.
I'm sure we'll talk again.
You take care too
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