TerminologyeditAn art film may also be called an art movie, specialty film, art house film or the variant spelling arthouse film, or, in the collective sense, it may be referred to as art cinema. There is overlap between the categories of art film, independent film and experimental film. HistoryeditAntecedents 1. Theatrical release poster for Griffiths Intolerance 1. The antecedents of art films included D. W. Griffiths Intolerance 1. Natural horror also known as creature features is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a. Distributors. You can choose a distributor from the list below and hit the submit button. That will take you to a listing of all their titles we have in the database. The Wizard of Oz 1939 is everybodys cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical from MGM during its golden years. It was first rereleased in 1949, and then. Sergei Eisenstein, both of which would influence the development of European cinema movements for decades. Eisensteins film Battleship Potemkin 1. The international critical renown that Eisenstein garnered from this film enabled the Russian filmmaker to direct October aka Ten Days That Shook The World as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1. The General Line aka Old and New. The critics of the outside world praised these films. However, in Russia, Eisensteins focus on structural issues such as camera angles, crowd movements, and montage brought him and like minded others, such as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko, under fire from the Soviet film community. Art films were also influenced by films by Spanish avant garde creators, such as Luis Buuel and Salvador Dal e. Buy The Cat Returns The Movie On Dvd. LAge dOr from 1. French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau e. The Blood of a Poet, also from 1. In the 1. 92. 0s, film societies began advocating the notion that films could be divided into an. In England, Alfred Hitchcock and Ivor Montagu formed a Film Society and imported films that they thought were artistic achievements, such as Soviet films of dialectical montage, and the expressionist films of the Universum Film A. G. UFA studios in Germany. Cinma Pur, a 1. French avant garde film movement also influenced the development of the idea of art film. The cinema pur film movement included Dada artists, such as Man Ray Emak Bakia, Return to Reason, Ren Clair Entracte, and Marcel Duchamp Anemic Cinema. The Dadaists used film to transcend narrative storytelling conventions, bourgeois traditions, and conventional Aristotelian notions of time and space by creating a flexible montage of time and space. Pure Cinema was influenced by such German absolute filmmakers as Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann, and Viking Eggeling. Richter claimed that his 1. Rhythmus 2. 1, was the first abstract film ever created. This claim is not true he was preceded by the Italian Futurists. Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna between 1. Futurist Manifesto of Cinema1. German artist Walter Ruttmann who produced Lichtspiel Opus 1 in 1. Nevertheless, Richters film Rhythmus 2. U. S. photographer and filmmaker Man Ray pictured here in 1. Dadaist Cinma Pur film movement, which influenced the development of art film. In the 1. 93. 0s and 1. Hollywood films could be divided into the artistic aspirations of literary adaptations like John Fords The Informer 1. Eugene ONeills The Long Voyage Home 1. William Siska argues that Italian neorealist films from the mid to late 1. Open City 1. 94. Paisa 1. Bicycle Thieves can be deemed as another conscious art film movement. In the late 1. U. S. publics perception that Italian neorealist films and other serious European fare were different from mainstream Hollywood films was reinforced by the development of arthouse cinemas in major U. S. cities and college towns. After the Second World War,. American filmgoing public was wearying of mainstream Hollywood films, and they went to the newly created art film theaters to see. Films shown in these art cinemas included. British, foreign language, and independent American films, as well as documentaries and revivals of Hollywood classics. Films such as Rossellinis Open City and Mackendricks Tight Little Island Whisky Galore, Bicycle Thieves and The Red Shoes were shown to substantial U. S. audiences. 5In the late 1. French filmmakers began to produce films that were influenced by Italian Neorealism1. Hollywood cinema,1. French New Wave. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm and is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. Some of the most prominent pioneers among the group, including Franois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, ric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette, began as critics for the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinma. Auteur theory holds that the director is the author of his films, with a personal signature visible from film to film. The French New Wave movement continued into the 1. During the 1. 96. United States than in Europe. In the U. S., the term is often defined very broadly, to include foreign language non English auteur films, independent films, experimental films, documentaries and short films. In the 1. 96. 0s art film became a euphemism in the U. S. for racy Italian and French B movies. By the 1. 97. 0s, the term was used to describe sexually explicit European films with artistic structure such as the Swedish film I Am Curious Yellow.