Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Yes well this is a heavier discussion but it is accepted that the so-called "art-house" market for foreign (ie subtitled) films for UK cinema release has collapsed over the decades.

Sight & Sound (which I have subscribed to since 1964) publishes box office returns for such films and they are pitiful. The days when people would flock to see the films of Antonioni, Truffaut, Bergman, Godard et al are long gone and London (where l lived for 8 years) has seen the collapse of cinemas catering for that now long-gone market.
Sight & Sound has just printed UK box office takings for 2016 for "Arthouse" films. Only one film in a foreign language took more than £0.5million and that was Pedro Almodovar's Julieta which took £1.3million. An excellent and thought provoking film that persuaded, say, 100,000 people to see it?

The Revenant took £23million.

Perhaps people like bears.