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Art film

An art film, arthouse film, or specialty film is an independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", and containing "unconventional or highly symbolic content".

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related to 1980s · 42
Art film → Akira Kurosawa, America, Andrzej Wajda's Man, Another Polish, Au, Blade Runner, Cannes Film Festival, Crimes, French, French Jews, George Lucas, In, Iron, Japanese, King Lear, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Louis Malle, Martin Scorsese, Misdemeanors, Nazi
related to 1920s–1940s · 38
Art film → Arc, Battleship Potemkin, Brief Encounter, Britain, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The, Citizen Kane, David Lean, Emeric Pressburger, French, Game, German Expressionist, However, In, Jean Renoir's, Joan, L'Âge, Luis Buñuel's Un, Michael Powell, Murnau, Noël Coward's
related to 1970s · 35
Art film → Alejandro Jodorowsky's, American, Andrei Tarkovsky's, Another, At, Badlands, Bernardo Bertolucci's, Clockwork Orange, David Lynch's, Days, Eraserhead, German New Wave, God, Heaven, In, Influence, John Cassavetes, Last Tango, Lotus Island, Martin Scorsese
related to 1960s · 33
Art film → All Souls' Day, Blowup, Breathless, Contempt, Eclipse, English-language, European, Following, François Truffaut, French New Wave, Godard, His, Hollywood, Ingmar Bergman, Italian, Jean-Luc Godard's, Jim, Jules, L'Avventura, La Notte
related to Antecedents: 1910–1920s · 33
Art film → Alexander Dovzhenko Earth, Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein, Eisenstein's, European, French, Germany, Griffith's Intolerance, He, In, In England, Italian, Ivor Montagu, Jean Cocteau, L'Age, L'Inferno, Luis Buñuel, October
see also · 23
Art film → Age, American Eccentric CinemaAnimeAuteur, AnimationL, Bay Film FestivalTelevision, Black Wave, CinemaPostmodernist, CollectionCzechoslovak New WaveEuropean, Earth, Film ChannelIndependent Spirit AwardInternational, Film FestivalCinema, Film FestivalSurrealist, HollywoodNo, IndiewoodIndependent, International Film FestivalTurner Classic, Maximalist, Minimalist, MoviesUnderground, Music, RebellionList, Television
related to 1980s–2000s · 21
Art film → Art, Bergman's The Seventh Seal, By, Companies, European, Film, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather, In, Miramax Films, Paglia, Paramount, Paramount Vantage, Persona, Professor Camille Paglia, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal
related to 1930s–1950s · 20
Art film → After, American, Bicycle Thieves, British, Eugene O'Neill's The Long, European, Films, Hollywood, In, Italian, John Ford's The Informer, Mackendrick's Tight Little Island, Open City, Paisa, Rossellini's Open City, Second World War, The Red Shoes, Voyage Home, Whisky Galore, William Siska
related to 1960s–1970s · 18
Art film → Am Curious, American, Andy Warhol, Blue Movie, By, During, English, Europe, European, French B-movies, Hitchcock, In, Italian, Swedish, The French New Wave, United States, With, Yellow
related to Arthouse television · 12
Art film → American, As, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Dennis Potter's The Singing, Detective, Lynch's, Mark Frost's Twin Peaks, Quality, Television, The, Twin Peaks

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documentary or biographyinstance ofsome art films may widen their appeal by offering certain elements of more familiar genres0.80text
Hans Richterinstance offilmmakers0.80text
Walter Ruttmanninstance offilmmakers0.80text
Viking Eggelinginstance offilmmakers0.80text
Rossellini's Open Cityinstance ofFilms0.80text
Mackendrick's Tight Little Islandinstance ofFilms0.80text
the Swedish film I Am Curiousinstance ofthe term was used to describe sexually explicit European films with artistic structure0.80text
Miramax Films distributed independent films that were deemed commercially viableinstance ofCompanies0.80text
their budgetsinstance ofHe claims that a film is considered to be an art film based on artistic status in the same way film genres can be based on aspects of films0.80text
those produced in Hollywood appeal to a less discerning audienceinstance ofArt film and film criticismThere are scholars who point out that mass market films0.80text
how it depicts realisminstance ofthe public will not immediately dismiss or attack the movie where they are informed by critics of the film's value0.80text
Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalouinstance ofsurrealist films0.80text

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