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- adjective Of or pertaining to an
art house or art houses.
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Examples
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It accounts for its painful repression, detached tone and slow-brewing momentum more common in Japanese art-house cinema, a close counterpart being Nobuhiro Suwa's "A Perfect Couple."
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Mr. Demey is pursuing two key markets: the art-house theater audience and Chinese Americans.
Chinese Period Film 'Empire of Silver' Melds History, Art, Business Ethics Alexandra Cheney 2011
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Enough with the art-house flicks no one watches, some complained, it's time to honor the films we actually like.
Does ‘District 9′ Have ‘The Dark Knight’ To Thank For Its Oscar Nomination? » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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And we make different kinds of films, big mainstream films in different languages and really art-house stuff, indie kind of films being made, so there is no one kind of cinema that we make in India.
E. Nina Rothe: Berlinale Jury Member Aamir Khan Talks World Cinema E. Nina Rothe 2011
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While these kinds of films did make money at first, the formula was not stable, and people quickly began abandoning these blockbuster pictures for the independent art-house films that started springing up at Sundance and Cannes.
Top 10 Things Movies Taught Us In the 1990s » Scene-Stealers 2010
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Yet Truffaut has appeared to some as an example of a dreary art-house officialdom, as though his work was there to browbeat you into taking it as Great Art.
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I'm asking, because I've been meaning to watch a decent Russian movie for a while now, and I just don't know how to make a selection - I fear that those nominated for best foreign feature Oscar will disappoint me, I want a normal and entertaining Russian flick, not another European art-house creation: P Any pieces of advice?
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A longtime programmer who has worked with seemingly every art-house and nonprofit cinema institution in New York, Mr. Privett looks for ways to restore magic to the moviegoing experience.
Coming to a Theater Near You Steve Dollar 2011
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Clearly very much in the elliptical/modernist traditional of European art-house.
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I also just (and I mean just -- I read the last page before coming over to type this) read the graphic novel adaptation of Waltz With Bashir, the art-house animated film about Israeli's first (i.e. 1982) war with Lebanon that got an Academy Award nomination but didn't win.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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