Art House

This was quite the reading. Being the strapping young lad that I am, I had never really known anything about these small art house cinemas. I come from a very small town. We had a $3 movie theatre that had four screens and only played blockbusters. Even the bigger theatres that were farther from home in Winston-Salem and Greensboro only played big blockbusters. This was my film experience and exposure while I was growing up. Then this thing called the internet came along. Suddenly I was exposed to an entire world of movie watching. Personally, I feel this is the wave of the future, but there is still something so simple, beautiful, and intimate as the theatre environment. This is not to say that all big budget movies are the devil, but with film, as many other things in life, if you don't keep an open mind, this can be extremely limiting to your experience. 

The article itself seemed kind of sad about the death of these small, art house theatres. I was saddened to hear about the dying off of these places that I previously didn't know existed, but it's not a surprising thing. The general public doesn't really appreciate higher art films. This isn't to say that it's a good thing these places are dying off, but maybe just outdated. It's a great thing however to see these micro cinemas popping up, and the mobility, and ability to adapt is important if smaller films are to survive. This transition into the 21st century, has got to be the way to go. Sad though it may be, this might be the future of art house and small films in the U.S. 

Lastly, I had to watch both Passion of the Christ and An Inconvenient Truth in high school. It was quite humorous to hear that both these were considered independent films. They are... an experience. I'll leave my critiques of these films to that for now...