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circuits parallèles

English translation: Alternative Film Circuits

21:33 Nov 10, 2009

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French term or phrase: circuits parallèles

Contrairement à ses codisciples snob UCLA, il entend déjà à travailler à Hollywood. Comment faire le pont ? Il saute sur la première occasion venue : réaliser un nudie, film légèrement vêtu destiné aux circuits parallèles.

I am struggling with this term. " On the circuit"? is close but what do they mean by this term here. I could guess but I am wondering if this is a word with a specific meaning that might be known to a French mother tongue person. The text is refering to a well-known director trying to break into Hollywood in the 1960s: underground, art house, or something completely different like 'specialist audience' ) Any ideas? So far I have come up with'destined for audiences outside the mainstream' but does anyone know if this means black market?

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Sarah Robertson KudoZ activity Questions: 24 (1 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
Local time: 01:54

English translation:Alternative Film Circuits

Explanation:
or Fringe circuits

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Thank you for the three points

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Ségolène Neilson
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:54

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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

art-house circuits

jmleger

4 +1

Alternative Film Circuits

Ségolène Neilson

B circuit

mediamatrix

Summary of reference entries provided

definition

Aude Sylvain

Wikipedia

Stephanie Ezrol

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

art-house circuits

Explanation:
Mainstream movies are distributed in cinemas such as UGC, PATHÉ, etc. Less commercial movies go into local "art houses", unaffiliated cinemas

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c'est le circuit des salles d'art et essai qui ne fait pas partie de la grande distribution du cinéma de masse.

jmleger
United States
Local time: 19:54
Native speaker of:

French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Ségolène Neilson

8 mins

agree

Travelin Ann: sounds right

15 mins

agree

Verginia Ophof: yes..as in unafficial movies

43 mins

neutral

mediamatrix: "un nudie, film légèrement vêtu" (i.e. soft porn) hardly qualifies as 'art-house' cinema.

2 hrs

-> It does no, but that's the independent circuit where such movies would be shown. That why I put art in quotes in my explanation...

agree

Stephanie Ezrol: Definintely used in the U.S. in the 60s for soft porn

16 hrs

agree

Aude Sylvain: d'accord, ayant lu la référence de S. et ta remarque; en revanche le terme fr. 'salle (classée) art et essai' désigne vraiment un autre type de salles: http://tinyurl.com/art-et-essai, http://www.art-et-essai.org/accueil.htm / C'est vrai, good point!

18 hrs

-> Attention, il s'agit de salles dans les années 60. Il n'y avait pas de classification officielle à l'époque. On sortait des salles de quartier qui se cherchaient une nouvelle vocation.

3 hrs confidence:

B circuit

Explanation:
Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 3.000 de cinema "B circuit":

[PDF] S.V. Srinivas paper on Seminar-Film Cultures.d - [ Traducir esta página ]Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
example of a B circuit cinema hall for it still has wooden benches in the lower stalls and is notorious for screening soft-porn films. ...
www.sephis.org/pdf/srinivas4.pdf - Similares
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mediamatrix
Chile
Local time: 22:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Alternative Film Circuits

Ségolène Neilson
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:54
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 3

Reference comments

4 hrs

Reference: definition

Reference information:
I think it is the meaning here:

PARALLÈLE, adj. et subst.
(...)

2. [En parlant d'un organisme, d'une institution, d'une activité; plus rarement d'une pers.] Qui agit, fonctionne à côté d'un organisme, d'une institution de même nature (mais dont l'aspect est officiel); qui s'exerce en marge des dispositions légales, réglementaires.
Festival parallèle (du cinéma); gouvernement parallèle; monde, réseau parallèle (de téléphone, de la chanson); (danger des) vocabulaire(s) parallèle(s); administration parallèle; prostitution libre ou parallèle.
Les circuits de vente parallèles aux circuits traditionnels de la librairie, les clubs, les associations, se développent de plus en plus (Cacérès, Hist. éduc. pop., 1964, p.176).
L'information parallèle n'est pas une nouveauté. Elle a toujours coexisté plus ou moins avec l'information officielle, en tous cas dominante, pour la compléter, la corriger. À la rigueur on peut considérer que quiconque est capable de parler et d'écrire est un informateur parallèle (H. Amblès, Information et animation culturelle, 1972 ds Gilb. 1980).
− En partic. [En matière de marché, de police, d'école, de médecine, etc.]

http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/parallele/substantif - definition II.A.2

Aude Sylvain
France
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French

16 hrs

Reference: Wikipedia

Reference information:
from Wikipedia

"In the 1960s "art film" became a euphemism in the US for racy Italian and French B-movies. By the 1970s, the term was used to describe sexually explicit European films with artistic structure such as I Am Curious (Yellow). In the US, the term "art film" is sometimes used very loosely to refer to the broad range of films shown in repertory theaters or "arthouse cinemas."

This coheres with my memory of that period. I would prefer a word other than circuit, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_film

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Native speaker of:

English

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