I don't think it's that there's less than there were. If anything I suspect there's far more these days (like I say, my local arthouse cinema has a steady strea

I don't think it's that there's less than there were. If anything I suspect there's far more these days (like I say, my local arthouse cinema has a steady stream of them). I think it's just that there's vastly more mediocre formulaic movies and the media is obsessed with blockbusters so unless you're looking out for them, the quirky films don't percolate up into the general public as much as they did.