" 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.
But as Mrs Thatcher said "you can't buck the market" and if people prefer the pap of Star Wars part 78 to the intrigue and subtlety of, say, the last Claude Chabrol film (Bellamy*) - which was never released in the UK - there we are "
Graham Breeze like a superannuated Virat Kohli oozing experience and sheer class "Down the Pub". Well worth an early alarm even on the weekend