art house

[ ahrt-hous ]

noun

a movie theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.

Origin of art house

First recorded in 1950–55

Also called art house the·a·ter [ahrt-hous thee-uh-ter], /ˈɑrt ˌhaʊs ˌθi ə tər/, art the·a·ter [ahrt-thee-uh-ter] /ˈɑrt ˌθi ə tər/ .

Words Nearby art house

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How to use art house in a sentence

CGI-heavy spectaculars tend to dominate conversations about the state of the movie business, but there are a whole slew of indies and art house fare on the horizon that are worth seeking out when available.
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Both enjoyed successful runs at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre, a more modest and, in that sense, conventional venue for these kinds of art house projects.
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No sooner do critics and art house dwellers discover an edgy new voice, it seems, than it is immediately co-opted by the great flattening force of Big Comic Book.
Comic books have taken over the movies. Must they take our indie auteurs, too? | Ann Hornaday | July 8, 2021 | Washington Post
But all the studios like Paramount that do art house films passed on it.
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There was an art house in the town way upstate in New York where I was teaching and I went to every movie that opened there.
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I think Waiting for ‘Superman’ played to a pretty sophisticated art-house audience.
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Except that it was published by little-known Minneapolis art-house company Coffee House Press.
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[Laughs] Much to the dismay of my agent at the time, I was choosing some curious art-house films.
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British Dictionary definitions for art house

art house

noun

a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream

adjective

- of or relating to such films or a cinema which specializes in showing them
- (as modifier): the surprise art-house hit of the season

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