Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beau Geste. No longer do the seven major studios and several so-called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films were produced worldwide in 1986, an increase of nearly 60% from the previous year. While such independent cinema was once synonymous with sexploitation pictures and artsy foreign films, the new wave of modestly budgeted movies is gaining widespread acceptance at the multiplexes in Everytown, U.S.A...
...other businesses have recently vacated the block of Massachusetts Avenue on which Chi-Chi's is located. Orson Welles Cinema, which was damaged by fire last spring, and the store on the corner have both been gutted. Videosmith and 1001 Plays are the two remaining businesses on the block...
...Arizona had been made only three only years ago, you'd likely be standing in line tonight to see the special added showing of the film at the local Bijou. This crazed, self-referential comic scamper through the New South hopes to defy categorization, yet fits neatly into American cinema's newest genre: the Crazed, Self-Referential Comic Scamper through American Culture Movie...
...Cinema...
Much of the blame lies in the choice of the play. James is a very cinematic, not theatrical, writer as Archibald realized. In a James novel, the descriptions of houses and landscape are so visually striking and can be as important as the interactions among the characters. Cinema is the perfect medium for bringing these descriptions to life. When theater attempts this, it is exceeding its boundaries. The cast and staff of Innocents trespass this boundary, perhaps innocently so, but the end result is only somewhat satisfying...