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Recent Examples of grind house His films, all of which have been critically and commercially successful, have long blurred the lines between the aspirations of the art house and the pleasures of the grind house. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026 What the proto-feminist painter Artemisia Gentileschi was to the 17th-century Renaissance, Stephanie Rothman was to the 1970s grind house. — Spike Carter, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024

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His name conjures both an ingenious canon within British art house cinema and a trailblazing position within gay activist history.

— Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
In the past, Venice has been the launchpad for some of cinema’s defining political works — Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers won the Golden Lion here back in 1966 — and art house cinema has always had a political edge.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

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Constructed in 1963, the three-screen Cinema Village is billed as the oldest continuously operating movie theater in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest art theaters in the city.

— Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
The film released last week to widespread fanfare and critical acclaim, in Indianapolis and beyond, that has shattered the art theater box initially placed around it, propelling it into chain theaters and early award conversations.

— Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2022

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