Villanueva says he’s personally looking forward to it. The Bijou Collection opens this Friday with a San Antonio exclusive run of the A24 Studios film “ Funny Pages,” a darkly comedic coming-of-age story about an aspiring cartoonist that earned a three-minute ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere last May.
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Guests who are also part of the Santikos Movie Lovers rewards program can earn extra points on their accounts for checking off Bijou Collection titles within a given month. Villanueva said Santikos is also planning to bring in special guests, such as film professors from local universities, to facilitate discussions following select screenings at the theaters.
“I think that’s a big part of the art house community, is not just seeing the movie and moving on, but talking about it afterwards and discussing… how made you feel, and maybe how you felt that first night, and then how you felt about it maybe a few weeks later.”
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“The Bijou Series really needed a home,” Villanueva explained. There’s even a channel specifically for spoiler-laden discussion. To facilitate that, Santikos has launched a series of channels on the social media app Discord, including a channel devoted to the Bijou series, as well as places to chat about other recent films and new releases. Nevertheless, Villanueva recognizes that part of the whole art house experience is bringing people together. While there still isn’t a full-service, dedicated art house theater in San Antonio, the Bijou Collection films are being rolled out at the Embassy and Palladium theaters, with the goal of spreading them around to other locations in the local chain’s fleet. “Movies that make you think differently, or make you feel differently” will be part of the programming series, said Rene Villanueva, Santikos’ Digital Media Manager, and one of the Bijou Collection programmers. This week, Santikos launches the Bijou Collection, an ongoing series of independent and thought-provoking films to bring audiences together. Indie film lovers in San Antonio who’ve been hungry for a big screen experience since the closing of the Santikos Bijou in March, 2022 have something new to enjoy.
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