A Night at the Movies

The four page article you had us ready was about the indie scene and art house theaters that are typically found in downtown areas in big cities.  The author of the article, Rebecca M. Alvin starts the article strongly by mentioning how the scene has gotten out of control.  Much how audiences of the folk scene reacted when Bob Dylan turned to Rock-n-roll, the corporation has taken over something honest and turned it into a method for making money.  Her biggest examples of this are Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ (30 million dollar budget) and Al Gore's documentary on Global Warming.  Both did extremely well in the box-office.  They had stars and big budgets.  Indie is turning out to be not so indie anymore, its just the cool thing to do.  I feel like we fight for freedom and then when we get it, it doesn't feel like freedom anymore.  The indie scene is starting to blend with the mainstream.  The solution for bringing the independent movies out of the spotlight and back to the small theaters where cinephiles or people that are devoted to cinema can get back to honest film viewing.  These little areas for film viewing are called Microcinemas.  They are backwoods and small venues that show films that are true to their independent nature.  They are usually films that are done by one person and sometimes are more geared towards boredom instead of entertainment.  These microcinemas are moving away from the big cities are moving into rural areas.  Microcinemas are the new sector for independent film exhibition.