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Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

I don't know where you live so I don't know if you have arthouse theaters accessible to you. I believe if you keep up with what's coming out, watch trailers for movies online and such, you'll find that the mature films you seek are out there. I'm not sure its fair to compare today's fair in mature movies to movies of the 70's necessarily. I would argue much of A24's output are just the kind of movies you're talking about. Movies that take chances and aren't just trying to make "popcorn"(for lack of a better word)movies. This year alone I've seen "Climax" and "Midsommar" which you can't say were movies made for immature audiences. Far from it. There's a movie out right now called The Nightingale which sounds interesting. Of course a Climax or The Nightingale isn't going to get the same media coverage as a Marvel movie or a Fast and the Furious movie. But the internet allows you to see the trailers for these movies and at least be aware that they exist, so even if you miss the often way too small window that these movies play in, there is always catching it on iTunes or some other platform.

no idea about those movies you’re talking about, and pretty sure it’s the first time i hear about them—even here, i believe? i know you’re saying “the internet” but this is the internet.

of course i’ll go look for them now... thanks for the mention, please keep them coming.

as for where i live... well... there’s been that hurdle the past few years. but my location does not influence industry trends,

please note though, these great movies of the past we’re talking about were not “arthouse”. they were mainstream. they showed everywhere.

taxi driver, godfather, deer hunter, apocalypse now, rosemary’s baby, etc etc, were big budget movies made with hollywood stars. elephant man, hannah and her sisters, ran, scarface, raging bull, brazil, etc... not arthouse, seen everywhere.

same with the 90s... barton fink, pulp fiction, my own private idaho, swingers, casino, various oliver stone projects, a whole multitide of other “serious” or adult-themed films... not arthouse

i remember seeing the talented mr ripley in some ohio suburb multiplex.

these opportunities for audiences are few and far between now.

check out “seduced and abandoned”, where alec baldwin and james toback (featuring bernardo bertolucci as an example from the past) try to put together a film for mature audiences in 2013. they show that basically at that time you either had a mega-budget or you had a small movie under 5 million. a movie for say 25 or 30 million bucks... very hard to put together.

i think those trends have only exacerbated since then. it’s easier to get a billion dollars than it is to get 50 million.

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eta: i checked out those movies! they’re european. different financing/production than the hollywood studios... but yeah luckily there’s still europe.