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  • noun Plural form of arthouse.

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Examples

  • But you're right about "arthouses" not existing anymore and that the term "arthouse cinema" has taken on the broad spectrum of movies that wouldn't show at Village/Reading/Hoyts on a Saturday night no matter how mainstream-oriented they may seem.

    Speaking Your Language Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Besides funding small projects - or state arts councils that help local artists survive and work - it could be used to, let's say, start a nonprofit chain of arthouses.

    Marshall Fine: A Modest Proposal: A Luxury Tax for Expensive Movies Marshall Fine 2011

  • I guess there are no rep cinemas or arthouses where you live ...

    New Photos From Little Fockers | /Film 2010

  • Besides funding small projects - or state arts councils that help local artists survive and work - it could be used to, let's say, start a nonprofit chain of arthouses.

    Marshall Fine: A Modest Proposal: A Luxury Tax for Expensive Movies Marshall Fine 2011

  • There's been a lot of excitement about Olivier Assayas'Carlos, the French miniseries that showed this week on the Sundance Channel and which opens -- in both a 2: 45 and five-hour version -- today in arthouses.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Carlos -- Glamorizing Terrorism Marshall Fine 2010

  • On the other hand, A Film Unfinished was being released in only a couple of theaters, eventually to roll out to arthouses in a trickle.

    Marshall Fine: A Real Critic's Choice 2010

  • I recognize that the system for distributing smaller subtitled films in this country has all but collapsed, to the point where it makes sense for Dave Kehr to call certain films "too good" to play in American arthouses.

    GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 8. 2007

  • The September Issue is still doing gangbusters at the arthouses around the country and now comes this American sleeper hit about Valentino.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • And the fee will also vary depending on the use – lower for just festivals and arthouses, higher for north american distribution, higher still for worldwide distribution.

    Matthew Yglesias » Licensing Again 2007

  • The films get their brief moment of glory at Lincoln Center, never to be seen again -- or else to show up oh-so-briefly in one of New York's arthouses, where they will prove all over again that no one wants to see them.

    Marshall Fine: What's Wrong With the New York Film Festival 2009

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